No Laughing Matter

Newsweek by Andrew Romano | Apr. 26, 2008 (Opinion)

Hillary Clinton loves to repeat that she'd be "ready on Day One"... Good thing Day One is still 270 days away. My NEWSWEEK colleague... Breslau...prodded ... for a favorite joke.... "Here's a good one...Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand: her opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things that will emerge...are the cockroaches and Helen Clark." ...it wasn't so much comparing the former prime minister to an ... Full Story »

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by Jack Boatwright - Oct. 1, 2008

This story is remarkably biased and petty. It misconstrues a joke/remark that is about Helen Clarke's indestructibility as a comparison of her to a cockroach, it magnifies a mispronunciation of Medvedev, and it presents a second truthful remark (Putin having no soul) as a diplomatic slight, where Bush's original comment (about seeing Putin soul) is the real travesty. McCain misspeaks more in a single speech, and without actually telling truth. This article is exactly the sort of tainted reporting that your website should be warning people about.