Friday, July 16, 2004

Bush's National Guard Service - Must Be a Slow News Day

Jim Spencer from the Denver Post is hurting for material. He's back on the Bush-was-AWOL-from-National-Guard-Service meme again.
 
"If the president was AWOL from the Air National Guard in the 1970s, nobody in Denver covered for him in the 1990s, insisted Roger Still, the local spokesman for the accounting service.

A one-time restoration project in 1996 and 1997 meant to preserve records, not destroy them, Still said. Washington may have used the word destroyed, but self-destruction was more like it."

I would expect the only reason he's on this tired, old story, which has been refuted here and in many other places (search the blogs of the Heroes of the Blogosphere on the left side of the page), is that the destruction of the documents in question took place in Colorado.

I'm still trying to decide which Denver-area journalist I will adopt as part of Hugh Hewitt's "Adopt a Lefty Journalist" program. Right now it is between Jim Spencer, Cynthia Rodriguez, and Diane Carmen.  Any suggestions?