Editorial from the Mirror Universe

[Nyarlathotep]

Last night on NPR I was listening to them interview some people from the Chicago Tribune about their Endorsement of Bush . They read a little bit of it on air and this line stood out

This year, each of us has the privilege of choosing between two major-party candidates whose integrity, intentions and abilities are exemplary.

WTF?

Do these people live on the same planet I do? Did this editorial accidentally leak into our universe from Bizzaro World or maybe that mirror universe where Spock has a beard? Maybe it's a big typo and they meant to say

This year, each of us has the misfortune of choosing between two major-party candidates whose integrity, intentions and abilities are highly suspect.

My guess is that it leaked from the Mirror Universe. Bush would be pretty popular there, I think.

 

[Hutch]

My local paper, the Huntsville Times, couldn't bear to make an endorsement, so ran parallel editorials on why Bush/Kerry would be a good/bad choice.

wimps

 

[Grammatron]

My local paper, the Huntsville Times, couldn't bear to make an endorsement, so ran parallel editorials on why Bush/Kerry would be a good/bad choice.

wimps

That seems like a very good/bad thing.

Seriously though, why should newspaper make endorsements, are they not suppose to be unbiased?

 

[Nyarlathotep]

That seems like a very good/bad thing.

Seriously though, why should newspaper make endorsements, are they not suppose to be unbiased?

Endorsements are put in the editorial section which is mostly opinion pieces and that sort of thing anyway. I don't have a problem with it myself, as long as that is where their endorsement stays and it doesn't affect their reporting of actual news.

 

[Brown]

This year, each of us has the privilege of choosing between two major-party candidates whose integrity, intentions and abilities are exemplary.

Exemplary of what?

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Exemplary of what?

Exemplary of what a lack of integrity, intention and ability looks like.

NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!!!!!!


They just left out a few words. My mirror universe theory is shot to hell now.

 

[Grammatron]

Endorsements are put in the editorial section which is mostly opinion pieces and that sort of thing anyway. I don't have a problem with it myself, as long as that is where their endorsement stays and it doesn't affect their reporting of actual news.

I think it's one thing to write editorials on policies and another specific candidates or even parties.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I think it's one thing to write editorials on policies and another specific candidates or even parties.

You may be right but you have decades upon decades of tradition working against you. Newspapers ahve been endorsing candidates since the 19th century that I know of and maybe longer for all I know. I think people expect it by now.

 

[TragicMonkey]

My local paper stayed relatively neutral, and published editorials in the form of "Scratch and Sniff" candidate stickers. You could really smell the corruption and lies!

 

[shecky]

If memory serves me right, it's really no surprise the Chicago Tribune endorsed Bush.

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

It's quite simple. The editorial board of the Chicago Tribune drank the kool-aid .....

Charlie (props to the Frontline Rumsfeld doc) Monoxide