If you want to see how a real newspaper covers a story, go
here.
Former United States vice-president Al Gore launched a withering attack on the White House on Monday for authorising wiretaps without court oversight, and accused President George Bush of repeatedly breaking the law.
The strongly worded speech makes Gore the most prominent political figure in the US to weigh in on the wiretapping scandal. Gore, who lost the 2000 election to Bush following the intervention of the Supreme Court, also went further than other Democratic critics in accusing the president of wrongdoing.
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"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government," he said.
It's a concise, factual, thorough report on Al Gore's speech yesterday... and of course it's from a British paper, because that's the only place today you will find that sort of thing. Try looking at any domestic coverage and you will find this little White House talking point inserted at the end-- the conclusion, in other words, that you are supposed to come to:
A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, Tracey Schmitt, attacked Gore's comments shortly after his address.
"Al Gore's incessant need to insert himself in the headline of the day is almost as glaring as his lack of understanding of the threats facing America," Schmitt said. "While the president works to protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats deliver no solutions of their own, only diatribes laden with inaccuracies and anger. "
Wasn't it obliging of every single major domestic paper to leap, pavlovian puppy-like, and parrot the White House's cheesy, classless, kindergarten taunt to try to discredit Gore? What whipped, cringing, neutered little lapdogs they are. Truly pathetic.
And look at the difference in message, in language. Gore gives a ringing, magnificent defense of the Constitution, and the White House responds with drooling, fear-mongering googoo-speak. Oh my God, what we have lost. What we have lost.
Cross-posted here.