CNN just reported Dana Bash(sp) asked * about missing weapons....

[maddezmom]

and he declined to answer!!!! Whoooo....JK is right, * is hiding from this story.

[AIJ Alom]

1. friggin loser. time to wheel out all the spinners again !

[plcdude]

2. do you have

a site for this?

[maddezmom]

4. no it was just mentioned on Inside Edition...maybe a transcript later??

[maddezmom]

5. here's the transcript page....it'll be up later

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ip.html

[maddezmom]

6. here ya go........

DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president came to Wisconsin to talk about the economy.

BUSH: My policies support and strengthen the small businesses.

BASH: But his campaign wanted to talk about something he never mentioned, why they believe Senator Kerry attacked the president a day earlier based on questionable information. After "The New York Times" reported 380 tons of high-level explosives were missing from an Iraqi storage facility, the senator said this.

KERRY: This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration and the incredible incompetence of this president and this administration.

BASH: NBC News later reported the 101st Airborne arrived at the site nearly a month into the war. They did not see the explosives.

Bush officials initially bombarded reporters with e-mails, saying that report proved "The New York Times" and senator wrong. Not so, said camp Kerry. Regardless, the White House should have showed more urgency. The president's aides now concede there are many unanswered questions about when the explosives explosion disappeared and who is to blame and say that's why Kerry is out of line.

DAN BARTLETT, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: I think when you see the facts being contradicted in some cases through some of these reports that are coming out, it shows the weakness in their strategy down the stretch of this campaign.

BASH: Defending the president's execution of war, of course, was not the pre-planned Bush strategy of the day. That was to spin the Wisconsin's bus tour as proof they are in offense, going to Democratic areas of a traditionally Democratic state, getting pictures like these on local news exuding confidence. The candidate stayed on message.

BUSH: Getting people to go to the polls, remind them of this, that under the Bush administration, the farmers are doing just fine. The income is up and people are making a living and that's good for people all across this...

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WOODRUFF: CNN's Dana Bash filed that report. And we want you to know that after she did, Dana phoned in to say that CNN directly asked the president about the missing explosives story, and the president declined to comment.

Now, we turn to the Kerry campaign and its take on missing explosives story and the broader questions the Democrats are trying to raise about the president and his policy.

[SoCalDem]

3. Hardball's little toady, David Shuster (formerly from FOX)

mentioned it as if the NBC reporter story was true (the original lie)..:puke:

That's how they DO it folks..

They just keep casually "mentioning" false stories..people hear snippets here and there, and as they continue to mention these bogus stories, they morph into FACT..:grr: