But there were so many embellishments that reporters kept running with the story. Bush's inaccuracies were duller and harder to explain. Gore's claim that he had accompanied James Lee Witt to Texas was the last straw to many reporters, who began to see the embellishments as a character flaw of some importance. An anti-Gore bias may have come into play. So they never let go of the issue.
Nobody knows why.
But on the basis of the media performance in October, the liberal-bias theory seems to be in some trouble.