This is the lead paragraph from an AP story on John Bolton:
Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton faced tough questioning Monday from Senate Democrats on his nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Republicans were looking for swift approval from the Foreign Relations Committee.
Notice the past tense. Notice the time that I posted this. The AP story was posted to Yahoo at approximately 7am EST Monday morning. That’s funny, eh? Yes, because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee doesn’t meet till 9:30am Monday, April 11th.
So, I guess he hasn’t already faced tough questions. What do you have to say Senator Bill Nelson?
“That’s not the kind of representative of America that we want in the United Nations, a Bush nominee.” Nelson said.
On television talk shows Sunday, committee Democrats Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Joe Biden of Delaware and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia cited the alleged pressure and other alleged incidents as among reasons they will oppose Bolton’s nomination, plus that Bolton is a Republican and Bush nominated him.
See, I can make it up, too.
And the headline needs some editorial input, as well. Perhaps they were hedging their bets?
Quick update within same time fram of this post: the White House Yahoo news page now says “Democrats Grill UN Nominee John Bolton”, at 8am EST. Still in the past tense, though the hearing hasn’t occurred yet.
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11:15am: well, I am glad that I took some screenshots, since the story at that link is rather different then pre-9:30am today.
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AP Makes Up Story-Again
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