Is the despised, self-parodying MSM intentionally glossing over this important difference in order to exaggerate the anti-Bush shock value of the video? I don’t know–but I do know that the actual “topped” quote was hard to find in print, lending some of the stories an eerie, undocumented quality. Do reporters not print the quote because then they couldn’t justify the charge that Bush lied about the “breach”? You make the call. I’m too paranoid at this point. … P.P.S.: Shouldn’t Bush’s press operation, rather than Patterico, be pointing all this out?
Bush’s operation has relied rather heavily on the Army. Too heavily, I’d say.