AP lies about Bush teleconference with soldiers

The AP is at it again, they are stating in their headline that the Bush teleconference was "staged" meaing the soldiers were told what to say. Well if you then read the article you see that was not the case at all.

Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

Then within the article we have;
It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution.

But no where in the article can we find anything that specifically says that the soldiers were told what to say but instead the choreography seemed to be which soldiers would address each issue;
"OK, so let's just walk through this," Barber said. "Captain Kennedy, you answer the first question and you hand the mike to whom?"

"Captain Smith," Kennedy said.

"Captain. Smith? You take the mike and you hand it to whom?" she asked.

"Captain Kennedy," the soldier replied.

And so it went.

"If the question comes up about partnering how often do we train with the Iraqi military who does he go to?" Barber asked.

"That's going to go to Captain Pratt," one of the soldiers said.

"And then if we're going to talk a little bit about the folks in Tikrit the hometown and how they're handling the political process, who are we going to give that to?" she asked.


Ok, so where is the staging?? Am I missing something?? Interesting that when the MSM plants a question or two with soldiers that is all fine. Or when the MSM reports on "fake but accurate" documents thats all fine, or when a reporter works for the NY TImes and fabricates just about every article he ever wrote thats all fine.

UPDATE: Of course the NY Times joins in here, as does the Washington Post here.

UPDATE2: I found the staging here and here.

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