http://mediamatters.org/items/200510180008Wash. Post uncritically reported dubious White House claim that it didn't "organize" meeting between Miers's friends, Christian Right group
In an October 18 article, Washington Post staff writers Charles Babington and Amy Goldstein uncritically reported White House press secretary Scott McClellan's claim that the Bush administration did not "organize" a conference call among two longtime friends of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and a coalition of Christian conservative leaders known as the Arlington Group, during which Miers's confidantes reportedly avowed her desire to overturn the right to abortion. In fact, the conference call, which was between the two Miers supporters -- Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan L. Hecht and U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade -- and the executive committee of the Arlington Group, apparently occurred at the suggestion of White House senior adviser Karl Rove.
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