Just got this breaking news email from CNN

[Midlodemocrat]

Check out the punctuation.

-- President Bush "reluctantly" accepts Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's request to withdraw her nomination.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Interesting....

I am a journalism school graduate and the theory about putting a word in quotations when it is not truly a quote is that you are apologizing for its use.

[hlthe2b]

2. at least one CNN employee sees throught he crap, apparently

[Ready4Change]

3. That was on CNN cable news as well.

Noticed it myself.

[DS1]

4. It's because that's the word he used

I think

[Midlodemocrat]

6. I'm sure that is true, but the quotation marks around

reluctantly was a bit odd to me.

If he truly reluctantly accepted her resignation, why would those marks be there?

[highplainsdem]

5. Suzanne Malveaux mentioned on CNN just minutes ago that this scenario

had been proposed by one of the RW pundits as the best exit strategy, since the RW would not support her nomination. Make it seem as if it was all about her WH papers, use that as an excuse...