On 30 Sep 2004 15:57:22 -0700, mad-dan@keepitloud.com (Mad Dan)
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message news:<3ahol0hrkcrstu5s5lcinaa2s5q5fns4mt@4ax.com>...
>> On 30 Sep 2004 09:32:28 -0700, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com>
>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>> 
>> >Michael Cash wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The AP radio news, in characteristic unbiased fashion, informed me
>> >> this evening that in the debates Kerry will call Bush to account for
>> >> "the mess in Iraq".
>> >>
>> >Just out of curiosity, do you think it's not a mess and think we were
>> >absolutely right for going there and taking our eyes completely off the
>> >ball?
>> 
>> I have said before that I think it was perfectly justified, though
>> that doesn't mean it was a good idea.
>> 
>> My point was not so much as with whether it is or is not a mess. My
>> point was that using a phrase like "the mess in Iraq" is
>> editorializing, not reporting. At least not in the context in which it
>> was used in that particular news broadcast. "The situation in Iraq"
>> would have been more appropriate.
>> 
>> 
>
>
>Might not "the mess in Iraq" be Kerry's own wording? In which case
>it'd be pretty fair reporting, I'd say.

If such were the case, I would agree. I recall thinking the same thing
when I heard the broadcast.





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