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Originally Posted by Krootie
I owe everyone an apology - my original post was from the Huffington Post Blog. And that has political origins. Geez. What can I say - sorry to slant my post.
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Actually, it was from the Wall Street Journal political opinion section as I recall. Keywords being "political" and "opinion". From just reading the top blurb that you reposted as a quote from the article I could see it was a political opinion piece. It's news that the US is loaning funds to this group to develop an affordable car for the US market. And it may even be news that Al Gore is "endorsing" the company. But a lot of the things in the article were clearly slanted and used verbiage that made it clear that the articles author had an opinion on the topic. That and several things were speculative. (Thus its being in the opinion section.)
As can be seen from the posts following it, the quotes from the article don't agree with the facts of what's going on. (eg "give" vs "loan".) I don't think any source for news is taboo, even one as slanted as Fox, which
fought a court case for the right to lie in their news cast. (In case the link is later removed, google "fox news court case lie" to get lots of hits on the article(s) written about the case.)
I think the taboo is using something that's clearly from a political opinion page in a forum that's still debating censorship issues around whats banned and what's not, when "politics" is on the banned topic list.
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