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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (221257)	1/22/2002 11:10:44 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes you are, and there is no room in America for being a racist. Apologize, or get out.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (221257)	1/22/2002 11:13:12 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Far Left 'Nation' Magazine Just Can't Get it Right newsmax.com Monday, Jan. 21, 2002 Accuracy doesn't seem to matter over at the ultra-leftist Nation magazine's web site. It seems they can't even get it right even when they try to make it right. It still comes out Left - and wrong. Take last Friday's posting by one Matt Bivens. He opened his article with this doozy: "When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron." Wrote the Opinion Journal's James Taranto who had been alerted to the boo-boo: "Bush, of course, was part-owner of the Texas Rangers, not the Astros. Almost immediately after we published Friday's column [citing the mistake], The Nation fixed the error. Or at least it tried. As The Weekly Standard notes, here's how the modified sentence read: "When George W. Bush co-owned the Texas Rangers and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron." Oops. Wrong again! "Enron Field is where the Astros play; the Rangers' home is the Ballpark in Arlington, which has no corporate sponsor," Taranto explained noting that "Bivens also screwed up the chronology. Bush sold his interest in the Rangers in 1998; Enron bought naming rights to the Astros' new stadium in 1999. So an accurate version of Bivens's lead would have read: "A year after George W. Bush sold his interest in the Texas Rangers, construction began on a new stadium for the Houston Astros, and Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the latter team's park after Enron." That, of course, does not reflect badly--or indeed, in any way at all--on President Bush, though the incident reflects terribly on The Nation, Taranto commented. He went on to cite some glaring examples of the "bush league journalism" they practice over there at the Karl Marx school of journalism's premier house organ. "Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of this political magazine, appeared on national television and could not name her own congressman. "Columnist Eric Alterman apparently borrowed a phrase from George Will in 1989--then, 12 years later, accused Will of plagiarizing him. "Just two weeks after Sept. 11, columnist Katha Pollitt wrote a piece in which she boasted of her contempt for the American flag." And people actually read this thing?