Tony Snow's Spin

I know the President was reluctant to do the questions from the general public, concerned that he would say some tiny thing that the press would blow it up into some huge deal.

"some tiny thing that the press would blow up into some huge deal."

Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, author of "Worse Than Watergate," suggests that President Bush "takes a statement and drops all of the qualifications, all of the modifiers and makes it a declarative statement. He does it time after time after time. This is a misrepresentation of the facts."

In contrast with incoming Press Secretary's already incredible spin:

Misleading on growth plan. On response to terrorism.

"In a letter to Congress on March 19, 2003 -- the day the war in Iraq began -- Bush said that the war was permitted under legislation authorizing force against those who ''planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11." This same article points out that the adminstration used the after Operation Iraqi Freedom presence of al-Zarqawi to justify its representation that Iraq was tied to al-Qaeda, logic that would even more strongly tie the U.S. to al-Qaeda before the September 11 atacks. This piece gives numerous further examples, after some initial fluff.

Contrary to Snow's assertion, making the case how much the mainstream press has bent over backwards to minimize very large things, regarding terrorism responses.

A perspective with concrete examples of flip flops.

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