Criticizing Obama, WSJ editorial falsely suggested Bush didn't use a preselected list of reporters to call on at press conferences

SUMMARY: A Wall Street Journal editorial falsely suggested that, unlike President Obama, former President Bush never used "a list of reporters preselected to ask questions" when deciding who to call on at presidential press conferences. In fact, Bush also used such a list, as former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters in a March 2003 press briefing.

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