[boris]

Yes, yes. Very easy. In fact it is so easy that doing it well takes a lot of skill. In other words you don't lather it on, you slip it in with a word here, an adjective there. The 'translated' piece was--like the original--heavy handed and obvious.

In any event, I recommend finding something else to do with your time. If Grey Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he would still be re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien vote mean that Simon is toast--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop tomorrow.

--Boris

[d14truth]

"In any event, I recommend finding something else to do with your time. If Grey Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he would still be re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien vote mean that Simon is toast--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop tomorrow."

Speaking of heavy-handed and obvious.

Rewrite for 'right-thinking' Californians--"In any event, I recommend you finding something else better to do with your time. If Gray Davis were found to have killed Chandra Levy with his bare hands, he some would still be whining about the likelihood of his being re-elected. The deceased and illegal-alien democRAT vote means that Simon is toast going to need your help--EVEN IF the media were to close up shop start printing the truth tomorrow."

[Avoiding_Sulla]

...doing it well takes a lot of skill. In other words you don't lather it on, you slip it in with a word here, an adjective there.

Here you're right. Slanted reports, like the original, are intentionally not blatant. They only soften up the readers for far worse propaganda (like the other thread about what was published by the NYTimes about Simon's fundraiser in New York -- someone please supply that link).

This newsstory we parsed is representative of many moderately biased pieces, published by country-cousin newsrags, which only jab and insinuate and insult.
Their job is not unlike the function of picadors at a bull fight: to clown and jab and cut and run and set the bull up for the matador.
The ever more heavyhanded and declining L.A. Times cannot take down opponents of their Dim* favorite by themselves.
Like an overly stuffed matador long past his prime, whose slashes at the bull are labored and lack grace; they need help -- a lot of it!

The 'translated' piece was--like the original--heavy handed and obvious.

If our intent was to produce an original and unbiased news report you'd have a legitimate complaint. You don't.

See, it's called reversing the polarity. While we went out of our way to avoid going overboard (see the original thread, referenced in comment #1, from which this was an expansion), we still needed to reverse the original bias in order to make it obvious.

For your next try, go back to your Davis campaign busses and let's see if they even can conjure up for you a better line of defense. <G>

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*Dim -- in the case of Gray Davis, this nickname carries too much, er, wattage, to be misunderstood as cavalier namecalling.