Today seemed as good a day as any to analyze Reuter's spin via this Saturday Yahoo News Headlines snapshot ("-->" denotes my snarky analysis of the spin the headline is meant to impart) :
• World leaders praise pope as force for peace --> That Iraq war was d*mn bad
Amazingly, W's praise for "a faithful servant of God" and Schroeder's positive comments about his having "changed our world" actually appeared in the article before Hugo Chavez' praise for the Pope's opposition to the Iraq war -- but Kofi was immediately after W with his recollection that the Pope "felt that in war, all are losers". Well, except for those damn uppity Iraqis that actually think freedom is a good thing and worth sacrificing for...
• Rome prepares for influx of pilgrims --> Suprisingly neutral
• Pope's death triggers scripted ritual --> Damn scheming Catholic morons
• Selection of new pope shrouded in secrecy --> Damn scheming Catholic morons
• New pope unlikely to be from United States --> Serves that unilateral warmonger W right
• Daylight-saving time returns this weekend --> Even Reuters doesn't screw W in one like this -- yet...
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