Where's The Rest Of The Story?

The official AP version of the George W. Grenade story, like so many others, really bites the big one. Missing from the reports:

How a grenade, active or inactive, came to be 100 feet from George W. in the first place.

How much time passed between the Secret Service version (It was thrown) and the National Security Council's version (It wasn't thrown).

How the Secretary of the National Security Council can state definitively that there was never any danger to George W. and the Georgian president.

And how he can claim not to be an expert while saying confidently that the grenade couldn't possibly have been detonated.

How someone, anyone, could get past George W. Security gates when even an anti-Bush Tee Shirt makes Bush's security goons scream like Donald Sutherland in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

How much money we taxpayers contributed to George W.'s Keystone Cops Security measures.

Why the headline is so cleverly written as to make readers believe that George W. was long gone before the grenade was thrown/secretly placed 100 feet away from him.

Read it for yourself...

Grenade Found Near Site Where Bush Spoke

By MARA D. BELLABY, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

TBILISI, Georgia - Georgia's security chief said Wednesday that an inactive grenade was found near the site where
President Bush made a speech in Tbilisi.
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Gela Bezhuashvili, secretary of the National Security Council, said the Soviet-made RPG-5 grenade was found 100 feet from the tribune where Bush spoke on Tuesday.

U.S. Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said Tuesday that his agency had been informed that a device — possibly a hand grenade — had been thrown near the stage during Bush's speech, hit someone in the crowd and fallen to the ground.

Bezhuashvili said, however, that it was not thrown but "found."

"The goal is clear — to frighten or to scare people and to attract the attention of the mass media," he said. "The goal has been reached and that is why I'm talking to you now."

"In any case there was no danger whatsoever for the presidents," he said, referring to Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. LINK

I don't know about you, but I'm sick to death of the "edited to fit your TV screen" version of the news! I want the letterbox version-- you know, the one that includes the whole story.

And how about a little follow-up, Corporate news Whores?

Surely this story deserves more than the usual AP/White House stenography treatment...

But that would require investigative journalism, wouldn't it?