Is Bush a "Deserter"? (3)

In additional to the many individual articles linked in the blog I referenced in my previous post, I want to call attention to some of the individual source article on the Bush Air Guard story.

One-year gap in Bush's National Guard duty Boston Globe 05/23/00. David Niewert says this was "in many respects was the most serious effort by anyone in the mainstream media to examine the issue" during the 2000 campaign.

Since it was General Clark's supporter Michael Moore that kicked off the controversy with this statement, it's worth checking out what Moore himself has to say about it, with other links included:

You Say Deserter, I Say More Dessert 01/27/04
George Bush, A.W.O.L. 01/23/04

Moore's writing makes many sympathetic liberal journalists nervous. Part of it is partisan: Moore backed Ralph Nader in 2000 when he ran as Presidential candidate for the Green Party (aka, Treehugger Republicans to some Democrats). The other reason is that in his documentaries, he was willing to allow dramatic considerations to override what some critics thought should be a more scrupulously journalistic treatment of the facts. So a critical eye is needed with reading Michael Moore, as with everyone else.