Media Study Claims Bush Administration Lied Hundreds of Times About Iraq

Associated Press ^ | January 22, 2008

[Tut]

WASHINGTON — A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said he could not comment on the study because he had not seen it.

The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to Al Qaeda or both.

[L98Fiero]

‘Perhaps “Faux Conservative”, and change of name to FAUX instead of FOX.’

Can’t tell DU from FR sometimes these days. At least the lefty loons were original with that 10 years ago.

So Fox pissed you off by having an AP article on its site? How dare they?

Oh yeah, Fox is not a conservative news outlet. You take everything liberals say as gold, huh?

[rightinthemiddle]

Yup, it’s an election year. What a bunch of crap.

[Candor7]

My personal media study has shown that the MSM lies thousands of times EVERY DAY.

I think we should withdraw 1st ammendment speech rights from the press during time of war.

Failing that we should publicly pillory every one of them found to be lying in fact, for 3 days with no bathroom privileges, so they can smell the same stink we read or hear from them.

[L98Fiero]

“I guess a “lie” is in the ear of the beholder.”

Or in the case of “non-profit journalism”, the donors. A who’s-who of lefty organizations in this case.

Check their sites. “non-profit journalism” is beholden to donors. The LEAST way to remain fair and objective.

[CougarGA7]

Media Study Claims Bush Administration Lied Hundreds of Times About Iraq

That's almost as much as a journalist lies in a day. Shocking.

[Eagles6]

My point ‘zactly. Every other driveby is so far left that Fox, left of center, appears conservative by comparison.

[Godwin1]

Actually, in official USG circles, it was a “given” that Saddam had and was trying to acquire more WMD long before Bush arrived on the scene. Clinton said the same thing publicly, as did Albright, Cohen, Berger the whole Clinton national security team. Bush’s CIA chief was a Clinton holdover. What nonsense!

This is just more “Bush lied” propaganda from left wing journalists: and the now hopelessly agenda-driven AP treats it as “news. No wonder our media are dying before our eyes. Do they think we have no memory? No access to search engines? It’s not just that they are so dishonest: they think we are stupid!

[TBP]

“Lie” being defined as whatever liberals don’t want to hear.

OTOH< they tell lies repeatedly and insistently, apparently in the belief that if they repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true.

[Jewels1091]

it’s getting to the point i really, really hate jackasses, libs and whatever else they want to call themselves

[tpanther]

Which can only mean the likes of the Clintons, halfbright, gore, kerry...virtually all of them lied a thousand fold many more times than Bush.

Sheesh, they failed before so now they just magnify their failure into what????? 900+ times?

Bush derangement syndrome. No cure yet! Fight for a cure!

[dead]

Seeing the self-destruction of these mainstream media outlets is even sadder when you spot a child's toy laying innocently in the rubble.

[P8triot1]

Take a peek in Seria. Those tractor trailers lined up at the border must have been full of food relief.

[rockinqsranch]

Read the post again, you might wish to do so with your brains functioning.

Be back in the AM.

[woofie]

whats the big deal....everybody lies

[lonestar]

Did they count the times Bush was lied to?

[torchthemummy]

The most important question that needs to be asked is what is the definition of "false". The article plays it as if it means "Bush and Co. knew that what they are saying is false." This is never stated in the article because it would leave the AP open to reasons why the same eveidence against Sadaam, pre November 1998 when the inspectors were "kicked out " (ie. pulled out) that the Democrats touted in the most strident manner as late as July 2003 (Bill Clinton) and then slowly but surely allowed to slide into amnesia about their previous declarations by the AP and their LMSM cohorts.

You will notice that this "report" will only get so much coverage due to the blowback factor. This article is all selective inuendo in regards to the accusation that Bush and affiliated officials knowingly told falsehoods vs. the truth that they acted on the best info they had at the time.

[Tut]

Well.... that depends on what you call a lie. Michael Moore defines a lie is anything you say that is not true regardless of what you believe to be true or not.

I believe that it all depends on what a guy actually believes when he makes a statement. To decide what Bush lied about, you would have to decide what he actually believed unless you are using Michael Moore’s loose definition.

What Bush was saying was nothing new and was being said throughout the 90s by the Clinton Administration, the media and in most cases, by Bush’s sharpest critics.

It would be fairly safe to say, each and everyone of those so called Journalists, if you look at their past stories, going back a decade before Bush even got to the Whitehouse, I think you would find that they have wrote stories or at least eluded to those same WMDs that Bush spoke of, those same Al Qaeda stories.

Now.... if you actually spend time to go back and do some research on that, I believe that is what you will find.

With that new information, you can decide if the authors of that story... or that research is in it’s self a lie by misleading their readers.

Now THAT would be a story to write about.

[Tut]

I believe they were using Michael Moore’s definition. Anything someone says that turns out not to be factually correct regardless of what a guy actually believes.

[Vineyard]

And another independent research group (myself, my wife, and 2 kids - 1 is a college grad, the other graduates in May - and we are also in the Northwest!) did a study and determined that the Main Stream Media is biased and wants the US to be defeated.

We checked the definition of “Traitor” and determined that it probably applies to the Main Stream Media. While the MSM cries for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney - we figure that counter-claims of aiding and abetting the enemy by the MSM should be pursued, and appropriate penalties assessed if found guilty.

Since the MSM routinely distorts what Bush said, then airs the distorted statement, then tries to prove the distorted statement is false - this is shades of tampering with evidence. Ultimately, most of what various spokesmen in the Bush administration have said is demonstrably TRUE.

[Nevadan]

I did a simple google search with the Center for Public Integrity + Soros, and not to my surprise discovered that the Center for Public Integrity is just another George Soros funded organization with a left wing agenda:

“The Center for Public Integrity Full disclosure: The Open Society Institute, which was founded by George Soros, is a funder of the Center for Public Integrity. ...
www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=196”