Saturday, November 01, 2008

Word missing in Reuters’ Obama “anger” story

Under the headline - "Rare flash of anger from Obama on Halloween night" – a Reuters story today begins - - -

It wasn't quite a Halloween nightmare on Obama street, but journalists on Friday drew a rare flash of anger from the normally unflappable Democratic presidential nominee.

Barack Obama had taken a break from the campaign trail for a few hours of Halloween fun at home with his family four days before the election, but ended up visibly annoyed when news crews dogged their footsteps in their Chicago neighborhood.

"That's enough. You've got a shot. Leave us alone," Obama told reporters as he walked down the block with his 7-year-old daughter Sasha in her costume on the way to a party at a neighbor's home.

Obama, usually cool in public during a campaign that has turned him into the frontrunner for the White House, did not disguise his irritation when his surprise walk caused news photographers and camera crews to scramble for position on the sidewalk. …

Reuters’ story continues here.

Reuters’ sentence,

“Obama, usually cool in public during a campaign that has turned him into the frontrunner for the White House, did not disguise his irritation when his surprise walk caused news photographers and camera crews to scramble for position on the sidewalk,”
has an important word missing.

The sentence should read,
“Obama, usually cool in public during a media campaign that has turned him into the frontrunner for the White House, did not disguise his irritation when his surprise walk caused news photographers and camera crews to scramble for position on the sidewalk.”
What do you think?

And BTW – have any of you heard from Fr. Pfleger or Tony Rezko lately?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

John -

Why complain about a word. Whole chapters of St. Barack's past associations and affiliations are missing from the MSM.

Jack in Silver Spring

Anonymous said...

JinC -
This is off topic - I will discuss the Obama anger story later today. However, is it only me, a crotchety, woman of an older age, who considers it unseemly for the candidates for national office to demean themselves, and the office to which they aspire, to appear on a comedy show which routinely excoriates them in less than flattering ways?
cks

Anonymous said...

John -

Victor David Hanson in Friday's NRO supplied some of those missing chapters. You can find them at the following link:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGFhOWY3YTZkMzliYjFjYTlkMjNjM
GNhMTc3ZjYyMWM=

Jack in Silver Spring

knowitall said...

Yeah, but when it's not being conducted by his bias media friends, he and the liberal illuminati do not want to talk. They're afraid of going off script.