... that Mitt said: "If I am president of the United States, I will not forget New Hampshire,"
Translation: About your votes, people. If you're selling, I'm buying. Hideous, but politics as usual. It's just that Romney has been losing control of his tongue lately and needs a state-of-the art teleprompter as bad as His Ineptness. But this is an attributed quotation and therefore not the AP's fault.
This is:
Third place was being discussed as the equivalent of a win for much of the field because Paul, the quirky Texas congressman, seemed to have a lock on the No. 2 spot.
So, the world's greatest wire service, on it's own, in a narrative, assumes the authority to inform the world who is and is not quirky -- and thus how the significance of the voters' choices should be measured.
Not so very long ago, that sort of editorializing in a straight news report would have landed the AP reporter's partisan or incompetent ass in the street -- right on top of the editor who filed it to the wire.
C'mon AssPress. Give yourself something to be proud of for a change.
In this primary, nobody ever got spanked for laughing at Paul. They tried ignoring him and he didn't go away, so...
ReplyDeleteAbout 12 hours after that post, I noticed that Gannett picked up the "quirky" adjective for Paul.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we'll see it again. Journos may have decided it's a safe code word for "bat-shit- crazy enough to want an America of free folks operating with real money."