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Rove, Cheney Just Making History Up

Bushies' conjurings 'know few bounds'

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 14, 2010 10:21 AM CDT

(Newser) – The simultaneous arrival of Karl Rove's memoir and Liz Cheney's "right-wing noise machine" means the "revisionist floodgates have opened," writes Frank Rich for the New York Times, a "rewriting of history that knows few bounds." And while Rove's book better... Read full story »

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