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PBS Lies About George H.W. Bush's 1992 Supermarket Scanner Encounter

Summary by NewsBusters
On Monday’s PBS News Hour, co-anchor Geoff Bennett used a discussion of President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address to dredge up a hoary piece of liberal media mythology that helped doom the re-election chances of Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992. The falsehood originated with liberal hack Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times, who got an entire front-page story (“Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed”) out of the false…
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NewsBusters broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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