From Talking Points Memo : Looking over various reporting on Tora Bora from the winter and spring of 2001/2002, it seems clear that most major news outlets ra

From Talking Points Memo:

bq. Looking over various reporting on Tora Bora from the winter and spring of 2001/2002, it seems clear that most major news outlets ran stories which flatly contradict what the Bush campaign is now saying on the subject (see this earlier post for more details.)

I’d be curious whether, in reporting the Bush campaign’s current denials about what happened at Tora Bora, any major news outlet has made reference to their own earlier reporting which makes it clear that, as nearly as such things can be known, what the president is saying is simply not true.

I doubt they have. This isn’t the first time the mainstream media has repeated Fed lies as the truth even when it contradicts their own web site’s archived covererage of what really happened. Consider, for example, the lie about Saddam throwing out weapons inspectors.