Reply #29: Great article

[FrenchieCat]

Read this whole story.....it gives us the ammunition we will need if somehow the "liberal" media doesn't go anywhere with this story...it's full of facts, comparisons with how the media handled the Kerry story vs. the Bush story. Even gets into how Wes Clark was dealt with by the media during the primaries vs. a comparable situation for Bush which was hushed up.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc5192.html

Candidates, Two Military Records, Two Standards
Media Matters for America, September 6, 2004

Editor's note: It was a bad week for "veteran" Bush. Though you'd never know it if you get your info from the Fox News Channel. This weekend, the AP reported that a series of documents that should have been written to explain gaps in President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are missing from the military records released about his service in 1972 and 1973. The missing records are just the latest evidence that points to a concerted effort to cover up the fact Bush never reported for duty, and was thus AWOL, while serving in the Air National Guard in 1972....

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Though much is known about Bush's Guard record -- that he was grounded from flying for failing to take a physical, for example - - some questions linger. Among those identified by USA Today:

Why did Bush, described by some of his fellow officers as a talented and enthusiastic pilot, stop flying fighter jets in the spring of 1972 and fail to take an annual physical exam required of all pilots?

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One might think -- since we already know that Bush skipped a required physical, causing him to be grounded, and that records give no indication that he showed up for duty for several months - - that media coverage of questions about the candidates' Vietnam- era service would focus on Bush's record. But that's not what has happened so far during this presidential campaign, according to a Media Matters for America review of media coverage of the candidates. Not only has the media given substantially more attention to baseless charges leveled against Kerry, they have repeatedly held Bush to a lower standard than other candidates.

more, more, more.....