In today’s editorial, the Chron’s editors rightly point out that lower gas prices are not a GOP conspiracy.
Unfortunately, they make several mistakes along the way:
According to a recent Gallop Poll, 42 percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement that the Bush administration “deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall’s election.”
Gallop is how horses run. Gallup is a polling company.
Next, the editors goofed on both the name and home state of the House Majority Leader:
In an e-mail, House Majority Leader John Beoner, R-Ill., hailed the falling prices, implying that the party in power had something to do with it.
If that e-mail was signed “John Beoner, R-Ill.,” it’s a fake. The guy’s name is Boehner and he’s from Ohio. The rest of the editorial was littered with typos and punctuation errors that would’ve earned me a rap on the knuckles in Catholic school.
Who checks this stuff?
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Do they not employ copy editors?
The Crummyicle doesn’t need to hire anybody when they got LST to review copy. Maybe they know negative publicity is better than no publicity at all. It got LST to read it, if for nothing else, to find its errors.
Gawd! My 7 year-old could do a better proof reading job than the person they currently have!
Matt, and the Tribune and Hearst people wonder why they’re losing their butts financially. Reports they do on the military are classics too. After WW2, most of the reporters were veterans. Consequently, they at least knew military acronyms and nomenclature. Today’s reporters with a liberal education and no real world experience in anything aren’t even intelligent enough to realize when they’ve made errors. Likely in liberal arts colleges they were learning to conjugal verbs. LOL.
Kinky will fix all that ails…it can’t be THAT hard!
Cripes, it looks like one of my missives.
Only people not in the petroleum industry would think GWB & Co. manipulated prices. The last person I know to do that was Ronald Reagan and it is much more difficult now. What people ‘think’ has little to do with reality. What a world, what a world…..
So the price is coming down. Where are all the energy people talking about the high cost of getting oil from the ground? The truth is the cost of gas is based on those energy traders speculating. Drilling cost the same today as it did when gas was $3.50 a gallon.
Its all BS. Even at $2 a gallon we are still getting screwed without the benefit of lubrication.
Uh; you spelled “the” correctly and used it in the correct context in your headline. Might want to check that a little closer next time.
Heh. Fixed.
Squawk
On another thread — asphalt is not spelled “asfalt.”
/ducks and dodges
I find the daily Chron lead editorial consistant –a daily screed of anti-Americanism, God mocking, pervert loving and rejoicing in abortion.
Those editorial writers must have gotten their high school diploma via the “special education” track!
Aw, come on guys. The Chron is obviously working on an experiment to prove that old saying about a bunch of monkeys in a room with a bunch of typewriters and eventually getting the works of Shakespeare. This stuff here is just the “intermediate product.”
“I is a jurnellist. I wint 2 pubrick sckrool too lirn houw 2 chanj thu wurld.”
TEX06: Right on!
The ’special education’ track from the wackazoids in San Franfreako!
Well, it took them 2 weeks, but the Chronicle finally ran a correction on Boner’s name spelling and home state. I guess they’re sticking to their equestrian poll, though — no corrections listed for that.