sloppy spin mistress

The evolution of truth has had its quirks. Even though I honestly like the current trend towards clearly biased, opinionated reporting with no facade of objectivity, and enjoy reading conflicting opinions during my daily effort to sift out facts and find some sort of truth, I still tremendously admire the AP writers and researchers. Here is a sparkling example of AP writing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091114/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_book_fact_check