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To: Petes Sandy Girl

"We should clarify: the $84 in Schedule C income was from Bush's Lone Star Trust, which is actually described on the 2001 income-tax returns as an "oil and gas production" business. The Lone Star Trust now owns 50% of the tree-growing company, but didn't get into that business until two years after the $84 in question. So we should have described the $84 as coming from an "oil and gas" business in 2001, and will amend that in our earlier article."


2 posted on 10/09/2004 7:02:00 AM PDT by HarryCaul
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To: HarryCaul
We need to expand that quote a bit:

Kerry got his information from an article we posted Sept. 23 stating that Bush on his 2001 federal income-tax returns "reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise." We should clarify: the $84 in Schedule C income was from Bush's Lone Star Trust, which is actually described on the 2001 income-tax returns as an "oil and gas production" business. The Lone Star Trust now owns 50% of the tree-growing company, but didn't get into that business until two years after the $84 in question. So we should have described the $84 as coming from an "oil and gas" business in 2001, and will amend that in our earlier article.

So they (factcheck.org) posted erroneous information, but the essence of what they said is true, even though they had the facts wrong. Does CBS come to mind here?

It appears that factcheck.org is a bit of a misnomer.

26 posted on 10/09/2004 7:28:00 AM PDT by browardchad
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