From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel):
Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph:
Doug Dunbebin, who walked door-to-door collecting signatures to get the question onto the town meeting ballot, said there are still unanswered questions about September 11, 2001, when hijacked plane attacks killed 2,992 people at New York's World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
That number, 2,992, looked unfamiliar to us. We went back and looked at our December item on the Associated Press's bogus "grim milestone" (U.S. military deaths in Iraq surpassing total 9/11 deaths), and sure enough, the AP's 9/11 count was different: 2,973 to be exact.
What's the difference between 2,992 and 2,973? Nineteen. It seems Reuters is counting the terrorists--or should that be "freedom fighters"?--among the victims of 9/11.
For a full list of previous NewsBusters posts on Reuters bias, click here.
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Well isn't that special? So t
March 8, 2007 - 19:21 ET by bigtimerWell isn't that special?
So typical, so leftist...and so disgusting.
victims
March 8, 2007 - 19:34 ET by tejanodiabloyes, well, we really do need to bring the troops home immediately .. so they can whack the moonbat libs .. then they can return to the real job without further backstabbing ..
never look a gift skunk in the tail ..
TJ -- I really like your skun
March 8, 2007 - 19:56 ET by ThisnThatTJ -- I really like your skunk by-line. I pick up so much good advice on this blog.
Redeploy troops to DC and Hollywood
March 9, 2007 - 11:43 ET by pearlRedeploy troops to DC and Hollywood
The largest concentration of America's enemies are located in these areas.
V for Victory
Good catch, Ken.Now, I saw th
March 8, 2007 - 19:54 ET by ThisnThatGood catch, Ken.
Now, I saw the movie "Teacher's Pet" (I think that's the name -- I could be wrong). All about a hot-shot news editor taking an into class in Journalism. I forget most of the movie, but the up-shot was a distinct and proud tradition of always going after the truth and concentraing on the facts of Who, What, Where, When, and Why. Great movie.
But it precedes today's MSM. My big question is, "Why does NB have to serve as the mechanism to get to the truth?"
If I was part of the MSM, I would be awfully embarrased that I or my colleagues couldn't detect, then correct, this before it went to print. Yeah, I know that this Reuters reporter might have done this on purpose -- but I find that hard to fathom, because if he did, then he's counting on a whole bunch of conspirators to do a 'wink, wink, look at how I snuck this in' thing -- and I don't believe these people are that clever by half.
BTW, you are getting big-time MSM editor pay to detect and correct these errors, aren't you???!
Ah, well, I can't find it n
March 8, 2007 - 23:10 ET by John in CAAh, well, I can't find it now, but in the last couple of days on Drudge there was an article about journalists supporting advocacy journalism.
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
No criminals, just oxymoron
March 9, 2007 - 01:51 ET by bulletproofNo criminals, just oxymorons...if only we could have had the chance to rehabilitate them!
PEOPLE! ! ! It was the plan
March 9, 2007 - 09:12 ET by Sua SpontePEOPLE! ! ! It was the planes that did the do. Kinda like the gun in your hands thing...
People don't kill people, p
March 9, 2007 - 10:20 ET by MightyMouthPeople don't kill people, planes do!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
MM
March 9, 2007 - 10:52 ET by Dave RMM,
LOL-Well, I finally was able to train my guns to quit jumping out of their holsters and then going around shooting and robbing people while I was asleep.
Now I guess I'll have to start working on the airplane.
Dave,Don't own a gun but ha
March 9, 2007 - 11:38 ET by MightyMouthDave,
Don't own a gun but had a similar problem with Jack Daniels. No kidding... it would force me to go out of my way to buy it and then would have the gall to insist I say stupid things to my wife. On top of that, it would make me stumble to the sofa to sleep! The final straw came when damn near a whole bottle forced itself down my throat and I woke up on the garage floor! Talk about victim status, that was me back then, by golly....
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Well now, isint this a supris
March 9, 2007 - 11:50 ET by bassndudeWell now, isint this a suprise. The MSM counting the poor little "freedom fighters" in the death total.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Unbelievable isn't bass? A
March 9, 2007 - 11:57 ET by MightyMouthUnbelievable isn't bass? And what's worse, Bill Maher thinks the terrorists were the "brave" ones.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
The MSM, and the whole Left r
March 9, 2007 - 19:31 ET by kathleenirishThe MSM, and the whole Left really, never got the concept of right and wrong. It's all relative to them, just like the idea of who real victims are. The murderers who committed 9/11 are NOT victims, you gobshites! Go to hell for acting and thinking otherwise.
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