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January 26, 2006

Foyer the Antechamber

This week's winner of the "Well, duh" award goes to this morning's article in the New York Times, "Lobbyists Oppose Efforts to Impose New Restrictions," which for all intents and purposes should have been titled, "Lobbyists Lobby Against Lobbying Reform."

The article bends over backwards to avoid using the L word. (Not "lesbian.") In fact, the article never once uses "lobby" as a verb to describe how lobbyists are addressing the issue: Leaders of the lobbying community "pushed back"; advocacy representatives regularly "court Congress"; labor groups were "support[ing]" an exemption.

Really? Lobbyists don't like lobbying reform? I'm shocked.

Runner-up: the CNN.com article, "Bush: 'No doubt' NSA surveillance is legal."







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