But occasionally, we come across an attempt to manipulate mainstream media in an effort to discredit or damage politicians who do not fit the agenda of the left. In this case, the subject is George Bush and the War in Iraq. Regardless of your opinion on the war, you’ll likely find this scenario disconcerting and completely unacceptable.

So what’s the scoop?

It all started this morning when the Associated Press published a story regarding a study on false comments preceding the war in Iraq. Two major flaws in the story are readily apparent.

WASHINGTON – A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

#1) The Associated Press NOT ONCE mentions that the two “nonprofit journalism organizations” are funded by George Soros and his ilk.

#2) The Associated Press fails to provide similar statements by MANY politicians on both sides of the isle.

Need proof?

Watch the video…

Then, as if following a script, the New York Times published a version of their own.

Notice the names listed in the NYT article, or rather, the lack there of.

Warnings about the need to confront Iraq, by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and two White House press secretaries, among others, can be combed line by line, and reviewed alongside detailed critiques published after the fact by official panels, historians, journalists and independent experts.

Shameful…

The Times Online reports that Soros payed for more than 50% of a 2006 study that was printed in Lancet, a medical journal. The study claimed that more than 650,000 people were killed during the Iraq invasion, which is 10 times higher than general consensus.

The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.

New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people – less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate – have died since the invasion in 2003.

“The authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,” said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.

I fail to understand why ANYONE would take a Soros funded study seriously.