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In a video originally posted on the Web by a pro-Kerry organization in Austin, Texas, Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, apologized for his role in getting a young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard while young men who were not from prominent or wealthy families "died in Vietnam."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index.html
While the press apparently takes a pass
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/barnes_update/index.html
(not entirely true: the WaPo ran a wire service story on Sunday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42628-2004Aug28.html But, yes, it's not the same as the coverage of the SBVFT slanders.)
motherallIn a video originally posted on the Web by a pro-Kerry organization in Austin, Texas, Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, apologized for his role in getting a young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard while young men who were not from prominent or wealthy families "died in Vietnam."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index.html
While the press apparently takes a pass
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/barnes_update/index.html
(not entirely true: the WaPo ran a wire service story on Sunday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42628-2004Aug28.html But, yes, it's not the same as the coverage of the SBVFT slanders.)
