"White House faces an insurrection over metaphors"

[hedgehog]

he president will not pay ransom for ... " Carney began.

"You see it as a ransom, but it's a metaphor that doesn't serve our purposes ... " NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro shouted back with broad support from other confused reporters.

"You guys are just too literal then, right? Carney said.

"We just want to accurately report," Shapiro began before Carney interjected. "We're trying to be accurate in our description of what's going on."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/10/white-house-faces-an-insurrection-over-metaphors/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Reporters who don't understand metaphors can shampoo my crotch nt

[displacedtexan]

6. Thanks for the laugh!

I needed that today!

[BluegrassStateBlues]

2. The WH could always put NPR on the table if they want to play that game.

[SunSeeker]

7. LOL nt

[Marthe48]

3. It is a lot better than "gun to head"

Most people know what a ransom is and easily defines what is happening in the House. It is less violent than some of the metaphors we all could be using.

[regnaD kciN]

4. F*ck you, Shapiro…

"Ransom" is EXACTLY what's going on here.



"...doesn't suit our purposes"…? And exactly what ARE your purposes, Ari? Are you one of those "public broadcasting" reporters like Mara Liasson and Juan Williams, whose goal is to pick up a pretty penny by moonlighting on Fox? Since when do YOU get to dictate "purposes" to the administration? Call a spade a spade, instead of trying to politely tiptoe around the matter -- that suits the purposes of the COUNTRY, which is a f*ck of a lot more important than that of a pissant, false-equivalence-addicted, corporate-lapdog press corps.

[annabanana]

5. ^^^^^^ this^^^^^^ . . .n/t

[Arkana]

8. Jesus, was the press corps this nitpicky with any other Presidential administration?

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Obama is getting too uppity for them. n/t

[hedgehog]

9. I was telling my husband about this, and you may know I don't use this kind of language,

but if I'd been carney, my response would have been:

F*** you, Ari, F*** you and the horse you rode in on. Is that clear enough for your listeners!"

[yellowcanine]

10. I don't see the problem. GOP is holding America hostage for a ransom payment. If the shoe fits....

[Blue Idaho]

11. Once again the media tries it's hand and making the news instead of reporting it.

What an asshat.