The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
No Wonder the Packers Are Favored by 3½
“Bears Just Got a Little Less Fearsome Thanks to the Wildlife Taser”–headline, GadgetCurve.com, Jan. 19
Guess There Won’t Be a Second Date
“Huge Ice Block Falls From the Sky Onto Whittier Woman’s Escort”–headline, Whittier (Calif.) Daily News, Jan. 20
Bottom Stories of the Day
“California Declares Fiscal Emergency”–headline, CNBC.com, Jan. 21
First Draft of ‘History’
A reader calls our attention to the Associated Press’s “Today in History” feature for Jan. 21. Most of it is factual–“In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died at age 53,” that kind of thing–but at the bottom we get this:
One year ago: A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
Wow! When did “history” get so tendentious and partisan? One year ago today, it turns out, when the AP used exactly the same biased language in a dispatch [news report] on Citizens United.
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.”
