Ken Lay Tried, Acquitted by MSNBC.

[FlashHarry]

Nice headline, dontcha think?

[Walt Starr]

1. Buddy, you'd better get the call letters right!

that's MSRNC!!!

[FlashHarry]

3. Whoops! My bad!

:mad:

[KamaAina]

22. No it most certainly is not

it's BSNBC!!!! :-)

[LittleApple81]

2. How is that all the REPUGS (remember Rumsfeld at the Senate

hearing?) accept RESPONSIBILITY but not guilt?
How come it works for them but not for regular DEM folk?

[FlashHarry]

4. They accept responsibility?

Did I miss something?

[GiovanniC]

5. NPR Acquited Him Earlier, Too

On All Things Considered, I believe.

I'm not one of the people who normally considers NPR to be right-wing, but wow. They cast the whole thing as Jeffrey Skilling's fault and Ken Lay was innocent, see. The big bad prosecutor is just trying to score political points.

That was my take on their report, at least.

[Mz Pip]

6. Lay is taking his talking points

straight from Bush. The buck stops somewhere else.

MzPip
:dem:

[MajorFlaw]

7. Uh, they put quotation marks around his words. MSNBC is not

declaring Lay not guilty, they are repeating his own plea to the court. Geez, don't shoot the messenger, that's a shrub tactic.

[FlashHarry]

8. Er, I write advertising copy for a living. That's a misleading headline.

If you're surfing through the Web and see "Not Guilty," quotation marks or no, you're going to be left with the impression that Lay is--or has been found--not guilty.

[MajorFlaw]

9. This is not advertising copy, it is a common headline when

someone is indicted. One can only be left with the impression that Lay has been found not guilty if one consciously avoids reading the two lines right below the quote.

[FlashHarry]

19. You mean people actually read subheads???

Boy, you could've fooled me! I'm just saying that they could've said something like: Lay: "Not Guilty" or Lay Pleads Not Guilty. I thought the cardinal rule of written journalism was clarity.

[bleedingheart]

10. Is it me or does he look like that guy from the Carol Burnett show?

and by the way ...he is a guilty bastard.

[TrustingDog]

12. the Dorf on Golf guy? heh. n/t

[Dob Bole]

11. I'm glad their so gracious toward people like Kobe...

Double standards everywhere.

[LittleApple81]

13. HOW COME THE ONLY ONE THAT IS FOUND GUILTY for 50 thousand

dollar stupidity is Martha Stewart? Because she is a democrat? a woman? what was her difference?

[Canuckistanian]

17. What if you stole 50 thou? The amount shouldn't matter.

[LittleApple81]

18. Exactly. So how come the others, who ruined millions of lives, besides

stealing money (millions) get away with a slap on the hand, mistrial, or innocent verdicts?

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Lay needs to hurry and get on FOX and Larry King....

Thats where all the Repukes go when their in big trouble.Softball questions all the way.....


David

[Canuckistanian]

15. When you write 10-point headline quotes, you're making a point

Almost everyone pleads 'not guilty', so why the big letters? Are they implying he's being railroaded? I'll answer that myself. YES!

[thebigidea]

16. I head some twit on Fox argue that America "doesn't care" about Lay

she insisted to Cavuto that "America" cares more about seeing Martha Stewart arrested, and didn't even know who Ken Lay was.

Well, I did - and I got the electric bills to prove it.

[Insider]

20. why not: 'NOT GUILTY' says kennth lay...

says

the quotes make it look like a verdict. those editors know who their masters are. propaganda.

[underpants]

21. ABC all ready planted the seed with "It will be tough to convict him"

Words to that effect. Still none of the direct suckling by W at the Lay teet either.

ABC LAYed out how hard it will be to convict him while still reporting that it will be hard to find a nice jury in Houston. Many angles here-moving the trial and OJ-esque astonishment at the guilty verdict.