Democrats have been making much of this video of former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes admitting that he helped get George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard. During the video he states that he used his pull as lt. governor to put the younger Bush at the top of the TANG acceptance list. He specifically states, "When I was lt. governor of Texas..."

The only problem is that Bush joined TANG in 1968 while Barnes wasn't the lt. governor until 1969.

But that isn't stopping the liberal media from going to press with this story. They're just leaving out the part about him saying that he was the lt. governor when he did this.

Here's an excerpt from an Associated Press story on the topic:

"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard ... and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said in a video clip recorded May 27 before a group of John Kerry (news - web sites) supporters in Austin.

Barnes, who was House speaker when Bush entered the Guard, later became lieutenant governor.

The L.A. Times and New York Times are doing similar types of selective editing in their stories as well.

Perhaps it is possible that Barnes helped Bush out from his position as House speaker, but that is not the claim he is making. He is saying that he helped Bush out when he was lt. governor of Texas, something that is clearly a false statement. Yet the media has taken it upon themselves to cover up this hole in his statement without even pausing to question it or get the facts straight.