THE LEFT-WING RAG "THE NATION" ACCIDENTLY SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS -- MBURG "the one and only"

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Subject: THE LEFT-WING RAG "THE NATION" ACCIDENTLY SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS

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H.Roark

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Date Posted: 07:32:17 01/22/02 Tue

A bedwetter named Matt Bivens wrote a story last Friday for The Nation's website. He was desperate to achieve the leftist dream of directly tying George W. Bush to the Enron scandal (oh how the Dems keep trying). Initially, he wrote the following:
"When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron."
Houston, we have a problem. Bush was co-owner of the Texas Rangers, not the Astros. Oops. When the Wall Street Journal pointed that fact out on their Opinion Journal site, The Nation changed their story. This was the revision.
"When George W. Bush co-owned the Texas Rangers and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron."
Houston, we still have a problem. The Texas Rangers have nothing to do with Houston or with Enron Field. That�s where the Houston Astros play, not the Rangers. The Texas Rangers' stadium has no corporate sponsor. It�s just called �The Ballpark at Arlington.� Oh, and another thing...Bush sold his share of the team a year before Enron made the deal with the Astros. The Bivens unsuccessful hack-job is now nowhere to be found on the site. As John Adams said, facts are stubborn things.

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Re: THE LEFT-WING RAG "THE NATION" ACCIDENTLY SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS	Ronlee	17:16:04 01/22/02 Tue
Re: THE LEFT-WING RAG "THE NATION" ACCIDENTLY SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS -- Rootbeer :o), 12:36:18 01/23/02 Wed