Earlier today we noted that in an NPR story on the Swift Boat wars, Senior Correspondent John McChesney reported that the Bush campaign had “denounced” the claims of William Rood, the Chicago Tribune editor who has supported Kerry’s account of one of the Swift Boat episodes, saying his comments were “politically motivated”.
McChesney told me via email this afternoon that he misspoke. It was the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, not the Bush campaign, that denounced Rood’s story.