You'd think the Times editorial board would get tired of being shown as the
liberal bias hacks they are. Maybe they are ready to shed any pretense to
non-bias, objective, factual news re****ting.
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For the second time in a week, the White House has lashed out at a news
agency, this time chiding the New York Times yesterday for an editorial
about the president's position on a proposed update of the GI Bill.
"President Bush opposes a new G.I. Bill of Rights. He worries that if the
traditional path to college for service members since World War II is
improved and expanded for the post-9/11 generation, too many people will
take it," the New York Times said yesterday in an editorial titled "Mr.
Bush
and the G.I. Bill."
The newspaper cited the version of the bill written by Sens. Jim Webb,
Virginia Democrat, and Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican. The senators,
both
Vietnam veterans, say that increased college costs have outstripped
benefits
under the current GI Bill. The Webb-Hagel bill "would pay full tuition and
other expenses at a four-year public university for veterans who served in
the military for at least three years since 9/11," the editorial stated.
"This editorial could not be farther from the truth about the President's
record of leader****p on this issue," the White House said, adding that Mr.
Bush asked Congress to address allowing service members to transfer their
GI
Bill benefits to their spouses and children, and to expand service
members'
access to child care, among other benefits.
"The President specifically sup****ts the GI Bill legislation expansion
proposed by Senators [Lindsey] Graham, [Richard M.] Burr, and [John]
McCain
because it allows for the transferability of education benefits and
calibrates an increase in education benefits to time in the service," the
White House said. "Though readers of the New York Times editorial page
wouldn't know it, President Bush looks forward to signing a GI bill that
sup****ts our troops and their families."
The New York Times did not respond to a request for a response to the
White
House's criticism.
Last week, the White House accused NBC News of selectively editing an
interview of Mr. Bush by correspondent Richard Engel, calling the network
irresponsible and misleading. In response, NBC President Steve Capus said
"editing is a part of journalism," and the network posted transcripts of
both the edited and unedited interviews on its Web site.
The White House's latest criticism of the New York Times is part of the
Bush
administration's efforts to take the media to task.
Since 2005, the White House has publicly fact-checked news coverage
through
"Setting the Record Straight," a feature on the White House Web site,
www.whitehouse.gov. In the past year, the press office added a "Morning
Update," e-mailed to journalists each day outlining pertinent stories and
official responses.
The GI Bill of Rights, also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act,
was
enacted in 1944 to provide education benefits and low-interest home loans
to
veterans of World War II.
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