Check out this headline on msnbc.com:
"Delay wants GOP to blame Dems for his woes"
Hey! It doesn't get much better than that!
Once you click on the link you get this:
"Delay Asks Peers to Blame Dems"
And this:
WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, hoping to hold support among fellow Republicans, urged GOP senators Tuesday to blame Democrats if asked about his ethics controversy and accused the news media of twisting supportive comments so they sounded like criticism.
Officials said DeLay recommended that senators respond to questions by saying Democrats have no agenda other than partisanship, and are attacking him to prevent Republicans from accomplishing their legislative program. One Republican said the Texan referred to a "mammoth operation" funded by Democratic supporters and designed to destroy him as a symbol of the Republican majority.
DeLay also thanked Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., for his recent comments and said the news media had twisted them to make them sound critical, the officials added, all speaking on condition of anonymity.
In an appearance on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Santorum said DeLay "has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves. But from everything I've heard, again, from the comments and responding to those, is everything he's done was according to the law."
Considering how irreponsible MSNBC.com has been with their headlines (I usually send an email a week to their "Feedback" site), I think this is a cause for celebration! Frankly, I'm suprised that they even reported this, much less framed it to make Delay look like the skunk he is.