Time Retracts Anti-Bush Racial Smear

NewsMax.com ^ | January 24, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[conservativecorner]

The Democrats' media allies have eagerly promoted the party establishment's race-baiting campaign against President Bush and the Republican Party. But some of them are getting tripped by their own lies.

Time magazine tried to fabricate an uproar by claiming that President Bush was being "racially insensitive" and pandering to the rebel vote in Dixie. Oops. Here's a correction it has now issued:

Just Like Clinton!

"The article 'Look Away, Dixieland' [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush 'quietly reinstated' a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery — a practice 'that his father had halted in 1990.' The story is wrong. First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial Day holiday. Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush."

Sorry, Democrats, but your entire platform of racial demagoguery is blowing up in your faces by alienating voters. The Washington Times reported Thursday that "two major new polls show the public is on Mr. Bush's side" in opposing racial preferences in college admissions. Yes, a majority of Americans oppose discrimination against people of any race.

And what organizations carried out those polls? Why, none other than Time magazine and its doppelganger, Newsweek.

[alnick]

Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush."

Oh, so since Clinton did it as well, it isn't racist after all. Never mind.

[T Lady]

You mean SLIME and Snoozeweek, don't you?

-Regards, T.

[cody32127]

Oh, so since Clinton did it as well, it isn't racist after all. Never mind.

Thats EXACTLY WHAT I READ IN IT TOO

[conservativecorner]

The article attempts to point out the hypocrisy of the liberal news media, and it accomplishes that aim quite well.

[The Electrician]

And also points out the hypocrisy of the "legitimate media" (ha ha ha) when they try to draw a distinction between their journalistic practices and those of Matt Drudge and others. Where were Time Magazine's vaunted fact checkers and editors when this article came around the first time?

[TLBSHOW]

Time magazine knows just what they did. Its plain to see the first story and then the second right before your eyes. That is what the liberal bias media does with most all their stories.

TIME MAGAZINE PRESS RELEASE WAS FALSE

Please note that this isn't a Press Release as their first false one was.
Liberal Time Magazine is filled with left wing lies and Race baiting.


Correction
The following correction was issued by TIME on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003

The article "Look Away, Dixieland" [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush "quietly reinstated" a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery — a practice "that his father had halted in 1990."

First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial Day holiday.

Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush.

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From what I understand Time Magazine was slammed but Good for this little race baiting lie from the liberal magazine of falsehoods!


and here below is the first false story just to see what kind of bias media Time Magazine is..
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TIME Exclusive:


PRESS RELEASE 1/19/2003


GEORGE W. BUSH HAS QUIETLY REINSTATED PRACTICE OF PAYING HOMAGE TO CONFEDERATE HERO JEFFERSON DAVIS
Bush White House Sending Memorial Day Wreath To Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetary -- A Practice His Father Halted In 1990


Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003
New York -- George W. Bush has quietly reinstated a tradition, that his father halted in 1990, of paying homage to the greatest hero of the Confederacy -- Jefferson Davis, TIME's Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf report.

Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row, Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. It?s not clear why, after more than a decade's lapse, the current Bush White House resumed this symbolic tribute to the Old South. But one of the organizations connected to the ceremony is the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose "Chief Aide-de-Camp" is Richard T. Hines, an influential figure in South Carolina politics. In that state's brutal 2000 Republican primary, Hines reportedly helped finance tens of thousands of letters blasting Bush rival John McCain for failing to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. Despite repeated requests by TIME, Hines declined to comment, TIME reports.

George W. Bush issued a stern rebuke to Senator Trent Lott in December for his praise of the segregationist 1948 presidential bid of Strom Thurmond. Bush has revived the tradition, dating back to Woodrow Wilson, that his father had halted in 1990.

The elder Bush was weary of infighting among various Confederacy groups, so his White House declined to participate altogether. "No one saw a wreath from 1990 until George W. Bush got elected," said John Edward Hurley, head of the Confederate Memorial Association in Washington. His account is echoed by numerous participants in the annual event, TIME reports.

[Bob]

Oh, so since Clinton did it as well, it isn't racist after all. Never mind.

No, that's not what it says at all. The article refers to this as a decades-old practice. How many decades? Who knows, perhaps since the Civil War.

GHWB changed the date but the practice pre-dates even his presidency.

[TLBSHOW]

TAKE A LOOK

I new it was bogus!

[Republican Wildcat]

I think you miss his point about the bias of the media. It was a racist practice until they discovered that it occurred under Clinton. Then it wasn't racist anymore. Nevermind.

[doug from upland]

Typical of the RATS. I suspect the RAT underground had fun with this. Too bad for those pukes.

[okie01]

"No one saw a wreath from 1990 until George W. Bush got elected," said John Edward Hurley, head of the Confederate Memorial Association in Washington.

The retraction doesn't explain this quote, which is from the original article.

I wonder whether a.) Mr. Hurley lied or b.) Time (and reporters Tumulty and Weisskopf) fabricated the quote altogether.

How do you suppose they might explain the quote?

[exit82]

The original article, posted in reply 7, mentions the practice as started by Woodrow Wilson.

[TLBSHOW]

I tried to call them yesterday here but kept getting voice mail! This was on the original story that now looks like this. This page is no longer available but I did slam TIME BUT GOOD HERE HERE

anyone want to call or email here

Weekend media contact:

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