W & aides broadcast media hate

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by Lloyd Grove

He didn't free the slaves.

He didn't rid the world of Hitler.

He didn't even - like his father - preside over the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Yet George W. Bush tells New Yorker writer Ken Auletta: "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."

With stunners like that, no wonder he spends so little time with journalists.

The President's eyebrow-raising assertion comes during some Oval Office chitchat after Auletta - writing about the testy relations between the Bush White House and the news media - sits in on an interview with a British newspaper reporter.

In the latest New Yorker, Auletta reports that Bush and his minions have little use for the Fourth Estate.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/153998p-135485c.html

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1. Oh please let this be true !!!

A little tid bit of question here, what is older and more powerful, the Pen or the Pistol.

I rest my case

[Virginian]

2. OH?

Card argues that it's not the responsibility of top White House policymakers to provide reporters with facts.

"It's not our job to be sources. The taxpayers don't pay us to leak!" Card tells Auletta. "Our job is not to make your job easy."

OK, Then who does pay you to leak?

[Virginian]

3. This is too unbelievable to let it fade away.

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