Politico uncritically cited anonymous White House aides touting Bush "vindication" on stem cells, air traffic improvements

Published: December 4, 2007, 7:34 pm

Tags: jim vandehei, john f harris, the politico, media, propaganda noise machine

In a December 3 Politico article, chief political writer Mike Allen and executive editor Jim VandeHei reported that President Bush is "laying the groundwork for a 2008 strategy aimed at assisting GOP candidates early on and improving his image at home and overseas." Allen and VandeHei wrote that unnamed "Bush advisers are considering ways to call attention to scientists' announcement, which the White House believes was lost in Thanksgiving week, about discoveries that could lead to the creation of stem cells without embryos -- a vindication, in the view of Bush's aides, of his reservations about approving broader federal funding of embryonic stem cell research." However, Allen and VandeHei did not note that the senior author of the paper that announced that discovery, James A. Thomson, wrote in a December 3 Washington Post op-ed with Alan I. Leshner, the executive publisher of the journal Science, that the research "[f]ar from vindicat[es] the current

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