Splitting Hairs with a 2x4

H/T Glen Reynolds.

Another MSM member spouting about journalists being targeted in Iraq.

Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley made a public statement on May 13 that journalists are “being targeted for real in places like Iraq.” She has been trying to slide out of it ever since. Pressed by E&P’s Joe Strupp, Foley offered a clarification on who specifically was doing the targeting: “I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military.”

Sigh.

There is that fine art of splitting hairs. Only problem is that Foley is using a 2x4 to do the splitting. Does anyone really believe this clarification is any better than the original statement?

This one has been carefully buried as Reynolds points out.