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In "How Bush Did It," President Bush's former chief outside counsel, Ben Ginsberg, says I called him to express regret about an article I co-wrote with my colleague Kate Zernike that ultimately led to his resignation. Our story revealed that Ginsberg had been representing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth--a group that had attacked John Kerry in a commercial with unsubstantiated charges that he lied to obtain his war medals--while he was also working for Bush's campaign. "We haven't, like," Ginsberg quotes me as asking him, "screwed you over?" I asked nothing of the sort. I did not believe we had done anything of the sort. Our story was fair, appropriate, dead-on correct, and I never felt otherwise.
Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times
New York, N.Y.

Correction

In "The Vets Attack," we said that in their ads criticizing John Kerry the Swift Boat vets used a voice-over for Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In fact, for these ads the vets used an audiotape with Kerry's real voice. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.

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  • Posted By: Charla1956 @ 03/03/2008 2:12:27 PM

    I voted for Bush twice and I would be glad to do it again if I could. The ant-Bush people r just a bunch of whiners

  • Posted By: zeke227 @ 02/13/2008 8:34:17 AM

    ha ha ha ha ha. Moral compass? How bout mass killer. The country was wrong about bush in 2004. The sleight of hand and misdirection that had the US looking for moral rightness allowed the band of crooks and criminals to continue looting the national treasury. Joke's on us.

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