NPR Almost Uses the L Word
From this morning’s NPR news podcast (starting at the 1:28 mark, if the link isn’t stale by the time you read this):
[Romney is]continuing to hammer at the president for allowing some exemptions to the work requirement in the welfare law.
Romney: “It is wrong to make any change that would make America more of a nation of government dependency”.
And that’s Romney in Iowa yesterday. Independent analysis shows the president’s changes simply could allow states exemptions when they can show that their own processes would place more people into jobs than by meeting the welfare law’s requirements.
(emphasis added)
So basically, <quote Romney saying X>; but actually, not-X.
NPR doesn’t actually use the word “liar”, but this comes pretty close. And given the current state of American news media—where if one person says that kittens should be killed with giant mallets, and another person says they shouldn’t, the average news outlet will treat both as equally-respectable opinions and that the truth lies somewhere halfway between (you should get a permit to kill kittens with mallets, after proving that you’re not some sort of weirdo, perhaps?)—I’m grateful for any advance in the direction of letting people know what’s going on.
So thank you, NPR.