HappySqurriel on 12 October 2009
| Final-Fan said: Well, I guess I was exaggerating, but unless someone lied to me the Bush administration got the New York Times to hold off on breaking the warrantless wiretapping scandal until it wouldn't endanger the 2004 elections. That's unheard-of! |
As a guess, someone lied to you ...
Heading into the 2004 elections many major news organizations were doing anything in their power to make George W. Bush look bad; and CBS took it to an extreme level when Dan Rather accepted fabricated documents to slander George W. Bush, and wouldn't retract the story even after the documents were proven to be fraudulent. In the wake of the Dan Rather scandal (pretty much) every major news organization started actually checking facts and ensuring their story was correct before running it. It is extremely likely that any delay from the New York Times was from fact checking rather than from any efforts from the President.
