George Stephanopoulos has “corrected” Rudy Giuliani’s statement that ‘no domestic terrorist attacks happened under Bush’.

The two key changes are as follows. First the title:

• Then:
  Rudy Giuliani: ‘No Domestic Attacks Under Bush…. One Under Obama’
• Now:
  Rudy Giuliani Wrong in Saying ‘No Domestic Attacks Under Bush’

And then George added in a new paragraph.

Then:

“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did — one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said. “Number two, he should correct the things that Bush didn’t do right. Sending people to Yemen was wrong, not getting this whole intelligence thing corrected.”

The former Republican presidential candidate is specifically taking issue with the fact that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is being tried in a civil court instead of a military tribunal.

Now:

“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did — one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said. “Number two, he should correct the things that Bush didn’t do right. Sending people to Yemen was wrong, not getting this whole intelligence thing corrected.”

Giuliani seems to have forgotten about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and shoe bomber Richard Reid.

The former Republican presidential candidate specifically took issue with the fact that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is being tried in a civil court instead of a military tribunal.

(emphasis added to show the additional paragraph)

From reading the comments on the ABC post, I can only assume George noticed he really screwed up:

It looks like George was more than happy to repeat Giuliani’s talking point without correcting the record. This happened how many hours after the interview? It took readers to point out that George had really screwed up before he decided to “correct the record”.

UPDATE:

(see how I put update so my readers know I changed the story? I’m just some hill billly from Ohio, yet I engage in much more journalistic ethics than a key person in the MSM does!)

Thinking about this more, something really gets to me. Look at this screen shot from Rudy on GMA this morning:

It was at 7:09 am. Stephanopoulos did his post at 8:55 am (after getting off the air). Going by the comments he didn’t correct it until around 10:30 am. It’s amazing that a key person in the mainstream media was so quick to just play stenographer to to some GOP lie than to correct the record.

Perhaps instead of just editing the post, George should issue a statement of why something so obvious as forgetting about 9/11, a date we all know to well, occurred. Really – just read the original title, “Rudy Giuliani: ‘No Domestic Attacks Under Bush…. One Under Obama’”. Are you telling me that when George was typing that in this morning it didn’t pop into his mind at all, you know – ‘duh….9/11’? Is he really that incompetent, or is he to quick to echo rightwing lies? I think George and ABC owes America an answer.

UPDATE 2:

I just saw where George did issue a somewhat apology:

Through his spokesman, Rudy Giuliani has clarified the remarks he made this morning on GMA regarding terrorist attacks on the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama.

The Mayor’s spokesman says that the remark “didn’t come across as it was intended” and that Giuliani was “clearly talking post-9/11 with regards to Islamic terrorist attacks on our soil.”

Whatever the Mayor meant, it’s not what he said.  All of you who have pointed out that I should have pressed him on that misstatement in the moment are right.  My mistake, my responsibility.   

Good job, but it would have been much more dominate if you actually attached it to the original post.