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Rekna:

To be fair, I remember seeing numerous articles about McCain's freudian slip. In fact, a simple search for "mccain troops" on google news yields oodles of hits. Obama got more notice because he did it first.

Frankly, I think all these guys keep slipping and saying this because it is what they really think. I'm waiting for someone to stand by their words. If we didn't get what we wanted or needed from Iraq, and if our reasons for going there were incorrect (or at best unsatisfied), then how were those lives not wasted???

edit: In fact, go back and do the same search on "obama troops" and you'll see that you find much less relevant results at the top. In fact, these results include stories about McCain. That could be because Obama's gaffe happened longer ago. Or, using your logic, it could be because there is liberal media bias.

So all in all, I think your simple point fails. I'm not saying that there is or isn't media bias (in fact, I think there is, but it is much more complex than being "liberal" or "conservative"), but I really don't think that you can construct anything from this one incident and the reporting. If you were inclined to try, you'd probably have to conclude the opposite of what you started with.

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