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

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 wrongly doom the re-election chances of Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992. It originated with liberal hack reporter Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times who got an entire front-page story (“Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed”) out of the false claim that Bush was “amazed” watching a supermarket scanner in action at a grocer’s convention in Orlando, in order to portray Bush as out of touch with the voters.