Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them_ A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken [140]
Hannity also cites a 2002 study by researchers (including Paul Peterson) at Harvard and the University of Wisconsin that looked at the Children’s Scholarship Fund in New York City. The study claims that while Latino students did not seem to benefit from vouchers, African-American students did. According to “Results An Open Question,” published on June 15, 2003, in the Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, Peterson et al. left out 44 percent of the children in the test sample because they had not taken a state test as kindergartners and therefore did not have convenient baseline scores. He also used a child’s mother’s race to determine the child’s race. When a pair of Princeton researchers analyzed the data correctly, they found that the gains for African-American students all but disappeared.
If you’re looking for grist for your humor mill with regards to President Clinton’s impressive economic record, you could start by visiting http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/Work/020700.html.
15—The Blame-America’s-Ex-President-First Crowd
For more on conservatives, including Dana Rohrabacher, blaming Clinton after the terrorist attacks, see “Conservatives Sound Refrain: It’s Clinton’s Fault,” in the October 7, 2001, Washington Post.
The Byron York piece that came within one word of describing the Clinton counter-terrorism record is “Master of His Game,” appearing in the October 15, 2001, National Review.
Robert Oakley’s comments were printed in “Planned Jan. 2000 Attacks Failed or Were Thwarted,” in the Christmas Eve 2000 Washington Post. As were Paul Bremer’s.
Barton Gellman’s exegesis of Clinton’s counter-terrorism efforts appeared in a series in the Washington Post under the headlines “Broad Effort Launched After ’98 Attacks,” on December 19, 2001, and “Struggles Inside the Government Defined Campaign,” on December 20, 2001.
For more on the Sudan story, see Gellman’s article in the October 3, 2001 Washington Post, entitled “U.S. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts to Capture bin Laden or Have Him Killed.” Sandy Berger wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the Mansoor Ijaz story. The piece, “Skeptical About Sudan,” was published on July 13, 2002. And for more on Mansoor Ijaz, see Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon’s The Age of Sacred Terror.
16—Operation Ignore
The stories which reveal Condoleezza Rice’s lie, as well as the specifics of Operation Ignore, are: “Special Report: The Secret History,” in the August 12, 2002 issue of Time, and “Planning for Terror but Failing to Act,” in the December 30, 2001 issue of The New York Times.
For more on Operation Ignore, also see: “The 9/10 President,” in the March 10, 2003, issue of The New Republic, “Say Nothing and Do It,” in the January 19, 2002, Washington Post, “A Strategy’s Cautious Evolution,” in the January 20, 2002, Washington Post, “Slow-walked and Stonewalled,” in the March 1, 2003, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and “White House Defends its Action on Hijack Warnings,” in the May 17, 2002, USA Today.
The Bush administration’s counterterrorism cutbacks and freezes are described in “How Sept. 11 Changed Goals of Justice Dept.,” appearing in the February 28, 2002, New York Times.
Bush’s extended vacation at his Crawford ranch is detailed in the May 19, 2002, New York Daily News, in a great article by Michael Daly entitled “W’s Mind Was on Vacation.”
18—Humor in Uniform
For more on Halliburton and its taxpayer-funded contracts and loans, check out the Center for Public Integrity’s report, “Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough,” accessible on their website at http://www.public-i.org.
The information regarding Halliburton’s dealings in Iraq and Iran comes from a letter sent by California Representative Henry Waxman to Donald Rumsfeld, which can be viewed at the following link: http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs/pdf__inves/pdf__admin__halliburton__contract__april__30__let.