Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Oh, Chron, will you never learn?
The Chron borrows a story from the Washington Post, about a supposed change in Bush's position on the Rove thingie.
A year and a half ago, he said "I'll fire anyone found to have broken the law in relation to this."
A year ago, a reporter prompted him with a similar, but slightly less precise statement that implied more than Bush's statement, and asked him to confirm that he still stood by it. Bush did.
Yesterday, he repeated his first statement. (which included the "breaking the law" part)
The Chron's headline?
"Bush alters standard for firing in leak case"
Anyway, scroll to the bottom for the timeline (in fairness, The Chron put it on the front page along with the ridiculous headline). If you get thirteen paragraphs into the story, you'll see the story actually start to explain what happened with the obvious qualifiers and such.
The interesting thing, though, will come later when the letters to the editor pour in gobbling up the headline without reading the story. Stay tuned.
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