Posted on 12/02/2007 8:36:45 AM PST by PatriotEdition
Of course the media is on the democrat's side, but this is just ridiculous...
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By GLEN JOHNSON
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis.
The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for - namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner.
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OF COURSE she was calm!! She wasn't one of the hostages!! Sheesh! Leave it to the Associated Press to put Hillary on a pedestal because of some psycho who went into her campaign office claiming he had a bomb.
And when they do an article about Romney, it would be nice if they had someone with some intelligence going over it before printing. I mean, I am not the best speller myself, but you would think that the people who write for AP would be.
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A Wonkish Romney Turns Up on the Trail
By LIZ SIDOTI
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Mitt Romney loves statistics. The former venture capitalist pores over charts and grafs. He analyzes situations and data from every angle. It's little wonder, then, that as he campaigns for president, the Republican sometimes shows his wonkish side.
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I could be wrong, but shouldn't pores be "pours" and grafs be "graphs"? I mean, I know it's not the New York Times, but shouldn't AP have some standards, too? Or is it that they just don't care enough when it's an article about a republican candidate?
Billy Kess
“Pores” is right.
“Grafs” is not.
Patetic, simply, pathetic that any supposed “Journalist” would pen this level of total drivel.
You have the writer dead to rights on ‘grafs’, but miss on ‘pours’. One ‘pores’ over something which one is studying closely.
That’s just the press showing off what a leftist education gets you.
Graphs is correct but there was a recent discussion about pours/pores. I believe the people who know more about English than I do decided that pores was correct. I may be wrong, it's happened before.
LOL!
It was a small-enough incident.
But now I’ll sleep well at night knowing Hilary understands the NH Law Enforcement chain-of-command.
All I have to go on is that “pores” was the way I have always seen it written.
Could be a generational thing. It always used to be: “toe the line” now it’s “tow the line.”
In journalism it use to be “lead” now it’s “lede.”
The pour, pour, MSM. Even grapht to them will not help.
On the other hand, if you want to pore over something that's wet, you'd first need to pour some liquid over it. :=)
Hillary has like 150 campaign offices. She was probably not even told about this until it was over. She had ZERO to do with the outcome.
I was in a Chinese restaurant Friday night picking up dinner and this was on the TV.
Some guy quipped “I wonder how much she paid him!”
The whole place burst out laughing!
Indeed. Now I'm off to pour my poor self another cup of java.
IIRC, it's been 'lede' in the newspaper business for a very long time.
Similarly, 'grafs' is a newspaper slang term for 'paragraphs'.
I think she was very calm as well, amazingly so, considering the excitement and glee she must have experienced in knowing she would get some free press. Not to mention the opportunity to show how SHE would handle a crisis situation, when faced with terrorism. If the hostage situation would have continued I am sure she could have borrowed Janet Reno’s play book.
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