Rove Mania: MSM misleading again...

The MSM is breathlessly (my new favorite word) reporting today that President Bush has changed his stance on what action he would take against Karl Rove;

Reuters is proudly trumpeting this quote from June 2004;
Asked on June 10, 2004, whether he stood by his earlier pledge to fire anyone found to have leaked the officer's name, Bush replied: "Yes." He did not add the qualification that the person would have to be found to have committed a crime.


That's not quite what he said, this is from CNN, February 11,2004 (although the President said this on 9/30/2003);
"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. "If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.


So the President's answer of "YES" to the June 10, 2004 question "do you still stand by what you said several months ago" was relating to the 9/30 statement noted above.

Geez, if I can find this stuff why can't Reuters!

UPDATE: Looks like the rest of the news media is picking up on this line, CBS News, ABC and NBC have the same AP article proudly displayed on their websites as well.

UPDATE 2: It appears that President Bush made the statement indicated in the CNN article on September 30, 2003 and not February 11, 2004 as the posted date of the article indicates. See here or more on this

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