retraction – I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Today’s lesson in Government Speak

We love a site called RegreTheError.com. It specializes in pointing out retractions and corrections from newspapers around the world. Obviously, they have lots of material to work with. Like this correction from the Daytona News-Journal:

A story Wednesday on a proposed $1,000 payment to Daytona State College employees as a “bonus.” College officials say the term “bonus” is incorrect, that it’s a “one-time, non-recurring pay increase.”

Do we detect a hint of insincerity in that correction?

Source: Daytona News-Journal via Regret The Error

Why are liberals obsessed with testicles this weekend?

Bill Maher wants to lynch stockbrokers “with their balls in their mouths.” Fox News’ John Gibson should consider himself lucky, because the Huffington Post only wants to put words in his mouth.

Yesterday, the unabashedly lefty website ran a doctored video that combined two completely different stories and made it appear that Gibson had cast racial slurs at new Attorney General Eric Holder.

To their credit, HuffPo later pulled the doctored video, admitted they had been duped, and issued a mea culpa. Continue reading “Why are liberals obsessed with testicles this weekend?”