The Saga Of Two T-Shirts

Reposting in full, from The Carpetbagger:

I usually reserve my media criticism for the "Single Storyline" project at the Daou Report, but this one was too egregious not to share.

Sheehan's T-shirt made reference
to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq: "2245 Dead. How many more?" Capitol
Police charged her with a misdemeanor for violating the District of Columbia's
code against unlawful or disruptive conduct on any part of the Capitol grounds,
a law enforcement official said. […]

Young's shirt had just the opposite
message: "Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom." (emphasis
added)

This was in the national AP story that ran in hundreds of newspapers across the country.

Forget whether you like Sheehan or not; the AP has no know better than to frame the debate this way. Asking how many more U.S. troops are going to die in Iraq is not "the opposite" of supporting the troops. For most people, they're one in the same.

I couldn't have said it any better.