CBS News Radio description of Galveston tar balls, "ping-pong" sized. Ping-pong sized?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Have however frequently heard hail about an inch or so in diameter - described with one term:

"Golf ball sized".

Media liberals', transparent partisan spin continues. Anything for their fellow traveler.

Out golfing, again.

[Thermalseeker]

See-BS. Fits like a handmade glove.....

[TexasCajun]

Send this to Newsbusters.org, just their type of stuff.

Good catch.

[spokeshave]

...sent it to Druge..

[massgopguy]

I heard he played 8 rounds over the long weekend.

[SnakeDoctor]

I don’t get it. Why is this problematic? What underlying agenda are you suggesting prompted them to use “ping-pong” instead of “golf” in this context?

SnakeDoc

[Excellence]

E-mailed to Rush.

[mewzilla]

Barack Obama’s Golf Oil Spill

[CAluvdubya]

I think the MSM is trying to avoid any mention of golf so as to not remind all of us that “Nero” is out golfing as “Rome” burns...so to speak :)

[Joe 6-pack]

"What underlying agenda are you suggesting prompted them to use “ping-pong” instead of “golf” in this context?"

We've outsourced our balls to the Chinese.

[TexasCajun]

CBS News Radio description of Galveston tar balls, "ping-pong" sized. Ping-pong sized?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I heard he played 8 rounds over the long weekend.

Of ping-pong?

[Liberty Valance]

The Muslim President of Space is not amused.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

LOL found a link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/05/national/main6649045.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;3

[stuartcr]

???

[Cringing Negativism Network]

OK sorry it’s a rather non-earthshaking post. Which is why I used chat.

My point was, that it’s another example of media bias. This one, I allege is probably deliberate.

Somewhere in the editorial decision making process at CBS, I think some liberal consciously replaced the most likely description of that size a tar ball - which would seem to this poster to be the size of golf balls.

With one which does not allude to the game of golf.

Which, coincidentally, Obama was out doing again this weekend, while those tar balls were arriving at Galveston.

Granted, not exactly breaking news. :)

Still.

[mewzilla]

Interestingly enough, most of the articles I've looked at this morning, never mention the size/s of the tarballs, just the quantity collected, which ranged from 1 to several buckets full. There've been pics of the tarballs, and in most of the pics the tar balls look pebble-sized, to me anyway.

And there is one outlet that didn't get the memo and uses the g-word. Click below, it's found on the second page of the article...

Tar balls turn up on the Texas coastline

:)

[John W]

Went there and left a comment. Some here may poo poo this, but, it is an excellent example of how those that support The One will stand on their head for him.

[stuartcr]

Media bias??? Maybe the person that wrote it, just wanted to use a different term, or doesn’t like golf, or is a ping-pong player?

[basil]

It doesn’t matter what size the tar balls are—they have been showing up on the beaches at Galveston since time began, I should think. There are deposits of oil under the surface along the Gulf Coast. Sometimes, some of that oil bubbles up to the surface and land on the beach.

It’s as common as sand down there. No biggie!