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  ABC's Stephanopoulos repeated school bus falsehood spread by Pruden, Hannity, and Gingrich
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Last EditedRP  Sep 12, 2005 06:54pm
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News DateMonday, September 12, 2005 09:25:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionOn September 11, ABC host George Stephanopoulos repeated a falsehood that had reverberated through the right-wing media the preceding week -- that "there were 2,000 buses under water" that New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin could have used to evacuate his city before Hurricane Katrina's arrival.

According to a September 5, 2003, article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, "The [Orleans Parish school] district owns 324 buses but 70 are broken down."
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