Misleading AP headline: "Obama has bipartisan support for Syria strike" [View all]

[David Krout]

By reading the title, most readers would not know that the AP is referring only to Republican and Democrats leaders, who represent a tiny minority of all Congress members. The "leaders" rarely pass on opportunities to kiss Obama's ass, as we have seen in the NSA controversy.

It's also worth pointing out that the Congress members who usually get more $$$ from the military/defense lobby are these same leaders.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's call for a military strike in Syria won significant momentum Tuesday, with leaders of both parties in Congress announcing they are convinced that Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people and that the United States should respond.

Both pro-war and anti-war sides have bipartisan support, so AP might as well have said, "Obama has bipartisan opposition". The question is how much bipartisan support they will gather at the end.

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