In his November 19 “Media Notes” column, titled "Clintonista Central," Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz commented on the live coverage cable news networks accorded to the dedication of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Kurtz falsely asserted: “I don't remember anything like all this live coverage when Bush 41 [former president George H.W. Bush] opened his library, do you?”

In fact, like the opening of former President Bill Clinton's library and museum, the opening of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, was covered live by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News Channel.

A Nexis search of CNN transcripts for the live coverage of the November 18 dedication of the Clinton Presidential Center and the November 6, 1997, dedication of the Bush Presidential Library and Museum revealed that the two received approximately the same amount of live coverage (roughly two and a half hours) on that channel. Although transcripts are not available for FOX News Channel's and MSNBC's live coverage of the dedication of the Bush Presidential Library and Museum, a Nexis search of Video Monitoring Services of America (VMS), which monitors media coverage, confirms that both FOX News Channel and MSNBC provided live coverage of the event.