"The Associated Press changed 'boos' to 'ooohhs'"Apoligists would dismiss this as Rashomon effect.
"AP soon changed its story"
"AP 'retracted' the report 'citing uncertainties about how to characterize the crowd's reaction.'
"The new version...described the same incident this way..."
"A Knight Ridder/Tribune (KRT) report put it this way:"
In fact, it is something quite different.
Notice that both these news outlets and John Kerry are tormented by similar, endless contortions, convolutions, confusion, uncertainty, retractions, re-clarifications, re-re-clarifications...
It results from the same thing.
Their re-re-clarifiers would claim that it results from sophisticated nuance.
In fact it is the opposite. It is highly unsophisticated confusion.
These people are bogged down in a quagmire of decadence. They cannot see any way out of it.
They are the decadent Romans of the failed and falling Empire.
George Bush is an Athenian of the Age of Pericles. That's where sophistication is to be found.
In other words, they take a guess at how much bush-bashing they can get away with, then they backpedal until they reach a tolerable position.
Hmmm. Very mathematical of them-
The technique needs a name; how about the
"Regression Analysis of Maximally Slanted Believability"?
Think twice before you speak to AP. .. check this out...