Can't They Ever Get It Right?

There's something about the Clinton administration and Whitewater that causes the press to get it wrong every goddamn time they write about it. LMC brings us this AP report:

Another independent conservative group, Citizens United, is crafting video ads for television and the Internet that slam Moore.

The group's head, David Bossie, is a former Republican congressional aide who was one of President Clinton (news - web sites)'s harshest critics. He was fired in 1998 by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich for withholding the public release of testimony transcripts favorable to the Clintons in a campaign fund-raising probe.

What a load of crap. Bossie was fired by Dan Burton, his boss, (at Gingrich's urging it seems) not because he withheld "the public release of testimony transcripts" but because he got busted releasing heavily doctored transcripts to the press who, reliably, rushed the information into print. I'm looking at you Steno Sue.

According to Bob Somerby, Nightline even had the actual tapes. On air, they played the real tape and on screen showed the doctored transcript to presumably confused viewers, without noticing the discrepancies.