Of course, why should I be so surprised?
The New York Times, that fortress of honesty and fairness has a lovely little fluff-piece this morning, Tunes for the Freewheelin' George Bush.
Pretty harmless, no?
However, cuddled in with all the "Oooooo look at what the President listens to! Hey, I like them, too!" is this cute little throwaway paragraph:
Nonetheless, Mr. McKinnon said that Mr. Bush had not gone so far as to include on his playlist "Fortunate Son," the angry anti-Vietnam war song about who has to go to war that Mr. Fogerty sang when he was with Creedence Clearwater Revival. ("I ain't no senator's son ... Some folks are born silver spoon in hand.") As the son of a two-term congressman and a United States Senate candidate, Mr. Bush won a coveted spot with the Texas Air National Guard to avoid combat in Vietnam. {emph.mine}
Can you say, "Contrived?" How about, "Forced?" Perhaps even, "Bloody awful editing?" My high school English teacher (assuming s/he wasn't a raving loony lib-ruhl - which he wasn't, thank God) would have had red ink all over that sentence:
"Not pertinent to the story. No good tie-in. OFF TOPIC!!!!!"
Oh, can you also say, "Untrue and disproven?" Calling Dan Rather!
Cretins.
(Oh, HT to Drudge, for the iPod story, anyway)
