The entire purpose of the article is to create the illusion that he was not making a gaffe.
Do you really need to ask this question? The LAT did this because it has already "elected" Obama in its own mind and it gives them a chance to deflect stupidity away from their darling to everyone else.
Appears his ears would actually fit in his mouth. First I’ve ever thought of Ear in Mouth.
LAT has to be one of the most Liberal of the fishwraps...easily up there with the NYT.
It just illustrates how dispicably bias the media is.
Yet this article appears to suggest that many American politicians actually advocate such foolishness and that it is under serious consideration by influential American leaders. This is a dangerous and frightening distortion of the truth!
Distortion of information--and this is an excellent example!--by news organizations, which amounts to propaganda, is dangerous. Not only does it dangerously misinform the American people; it also misinforms people of other nations.
Apparantly, whoever produced this article considered it a good idea to protect Barak Obama and other Democrats. It probably seemed like a worthy thing to do. It also probably seemed worthy to advance their empowerment and, at worst, a harmless bit of streamlining.
Assuming the best--! What it amounts to is disinformation--very dangerous disinformation.
This is why the pubilic confidence in news organizations and "journalists" is rock bottom!
Whew! I thought you were going to say that it was Haliburton's fault. Of course it's Bush's fault. What else would our media say? Their chorus of Sleazywoodians and other left wing America-bashers are more predictable than spam.
What else does one of honest intellect expect from the LA Times but the usual Dim & Gimmie Party lies?
Obama’s state of the Union would begin with—”The prophet willing, the state of the union is sound” (ulating)