UPDATE: I'd like to think this diary is the reason the offending title at HuffPo has been changed. Unfortunately, my well-known, widely admired, and considerable humility, (the most commendable of my many virtues) which is a paradigm for all to emulate, will not allow me to do so. I am but a lowly dKos worm.
This'll be short.
Has anyone seen the Drudge-like screaming on the HuffPo FP yet?
No link. If you can't find HuffPo without my help...:)
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Arianna's screaming, bright red headline:
OBAMA: I DON'T 'BEGRUDGE' BIG BANK CEOS FOR THEIR MASSIVE BONUSES
What Obama said:
I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free- market system.
Quite a gap between those two statements, I'd say. But that sort of thing has never stopped Arianna Huffington.
Links to an article titled:
Obama Still Doesn't Get It
Not a blatant distortion of the truth like Arianna's blood-red screaming (despite the weasel quotation marks), sure, but look at this statement from the article by one Simon Johnson (never heard of him):
we have to wait until Friday for the full text of the interview - and the White House has a major public relations disaster on its hands.
Funny, I must have missed that major disaster. What if they gave a major disaster and nobody came?
To be fair, the article isn't all bullshit:
The president's only political chance is to take on the too big to fail banks directly and clearly. He needs to explain where they came from (answer: the Reagan Revolution, gone wrong), how the problem became much worse during the last administration, and how - in credible detail - he will end their reign.
and that I can get behind.
But what I can't get behind is Arianna Huffington deliberately lying about what the President said on her front page. That, gentle reader, is a game for Matt Drudge and his right wing ilk.
Or am I being thin-skinned?