1.20.2004

FactCheck.org: When I saw the unflappable Brooks Jackson--director of Annenberg Political Fact Check and veteran journalist for the AP, Wall Street Journal, and CNN--on NOW with Bill Moyers this week, I knew this was the guy who could answer a pressing question. So I emailed him:
George W. Bush recently told Ken Auletta of the New Yorker, "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."

Is that a fact?

Thanks,
Paul Schmelzer
Minneapolis
His reply:
I think Bush forgot about Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.

--Brooks Jackson
Visit his site, FactCheck.org, for other facts he's debunked (or bunked).

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