Thursday, January 25, 2007

Distorting the State of the Union speech

This was the headline on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News on January 24, 2006:

BUSH'S PLEA: BACK NEW WAR STRATEGY

Anyone who watched the President's address knows that he didn't "plea". In fact, less than half of his speech even dealt with Iraq yet the Mercury News paints an image of the President pleading on behalf of his Iraq policy.

By contrast, the Seattle PI (which is a very liberal newspaper) had a more reasonable front page treatment of the President's speech:

BUSH: GIVE IRAQ PLAN A CHANCE - 'Let's us find resolve,' he urges Congress

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