[Finny]

It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke, could have tweaked the original newswire story to have mistakenly identified the perps as Republicans rather than Democrats, and to leave the mistake uncorrected for at least two days. MSM outlets everywhere would be on this story like stink on a steaming diaper -- you can see the headlines:

Republicans Convicted in Federal Vote Fraud -- Cash, Cigarettes, Liquor Used to Buy Votes
Experts say fraud may have been more widespread than indicated; legitimacy of many elected officials called into question

Pinhead and Possumhead (Katie and Matt), Peter Jennings, Paula Zahn, Tim Russert, and the rest of the Usual Suspects would lead their repports by calling into doubt the results of every election for the past ten years where a Republican won, and busy coming up with tough questions to pose to Republican leaders ... then, in the middle of it all ... to find out that ... er, oops! The vote buyers were Democrats!

As it is, note the conspicuous absence of any mention of party affiliation in the AP wire article's title.

*sigh* Wankers.

[Mister Baredog]

It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke,

You mean like the "conviction" of Tom Delay?

[cake_crumb]

"It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke, could have tweaked the original newswire story to have mistakenly identified the perps as Republicans rather than Democrats, and to leave the mistake uncorrected for at least two days. MSM outlets everywhere would be on this story like stink on a steaming diaper -- you can see the headlines: "

That's our problem. We're just tooo honest to think that level of Evil.....though now that you MENTION it, there ARE a few morw cases pending...

[GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos]

If the story was switched to say Republicans instead of Demos the media would jump on it, but when corrected the correction would be on page 24 while the media would suddenly go silent. The first story is what most people get, while corrections only reach the truly informed.