More fun with Libby headlines
The AP headlines "Bush wipes away Libby's prison sentence," because it was a merely stain, a smudge, a blemish on an otherwise spotless man.
Reuters is going with "Bush spares Libby from prison," because he had to be "spared" after the unfair prosecution by a Republican prosecutor and Bush appointed judge resulted in a sentence within guidelines. What a just and merciful president we have to "spare" Mr. Libby.
The NYTimes in its own piece also headlines with "spares," "Bush Spares Libby 30-Month Jail Term."
Both the WaPo and AFP both headline with "commutes," with the AFP using, "Anger as Bush commutes ex-White House aide's jail term."
Doesn't that have a different feel than Bush "sparing" Libby or "wiping away" a sentence?
(More: This is really weird. Reuters, the LATimes, and the USAToday all have exactly the same "Bush spares Libby from Prison" headline all on individualy written stories. The NYTimes uses a slight variation.
So, I guess I'm supposed to wake up this morning believing Libby was "spared" by a judicious and merciful President Bush.)
Reuters is going with "Bush spares Libby from prison," because he had to be "spared" after the unfair prosecution by a Republican prosecutor and Bush appointed judge resulted in a sentence within guidelines. What a just and merciful president we have to "spare" Mr. Libby.
The NYTimes in its own piece also headlines with "spares," "Bush Spares Libby 30-Month Jail Term."
Both the WaPo and AFP both headline with "commutes," with the AFP using, "Anger as Bush commutes ex-White House aide's jail term."
Doesn't that have a different feel than Bush "sparing" Libby or "wiping away" a sentence?
(More: This is really weird. Reuters, the LATimes, and the USAToday all have exactly the same "Bush spares Libby from Prison" headline all on individualy written stories. The NYTimes uses a slight variation.
So, I guess I'm supposed to wake up this morning believing Libby was "spared" by a judicious and merciful President Bush.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:52 AM
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I wonder... Does this reveal a fracture in the MSM, where they don't consider lying and twisting of truth a grave flaw? That is, they find sympathy for Libby, who's crime was merely fibbing and obstructing the truth-seekers... acts that have become accepted as legitimate "journalistic" techniques in creating, er reporting a good story by so many hacks in the MSM.
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-epm, at 8:50 AM
I don't know. I find the language very troubling.
It seems a remarkable coincidence that 4 different editors would all settle on the same verb.
Probably, somebody sent around bullet points to the newsrooms, or somebody was pushing that phrase in their quotes.
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mikevotes, at 9:12 AM
So old Scooter told a few lies? No biggy. He was defending the fort from an attack by liberals and hippies.
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Anonymous, at 3:43 PM
Thus he was "spared."
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mikevotes, at 5:38 PM
Don't know if anonymous is serious or snark, but it's fitting with conservative thinking in that "the fort" is not the country, but a political party.
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-epm, at 10:10 PM
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