AP Headline on Yahoo: Carter Backs Dean on Eve of Iowa Caucus

[hellhathnofury]

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Howard Dean (news - web sites), looking for an edge with Iowa voters on the eve of the caucuses, got a show of support Sunday from his campaign-shy wife and a stalwart of the Democratic Party: former President Jimmy Carter.

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Earlier in the day, Dean joined Carter at church services in Plains, Ga., and the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner praised the candidate's "courageous and outspoken" stands, in particular his steadfast opposition to the Iraq (news - web sites) war.

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Dean skipped a precious 24 hours on the ground in Iowa to attend Carter's church in Georgia, where the 39th president offered kind words but no endorsement.


The two men joined worshippers at the 131-member Marantha Baptist Church, where Carter teaches Sunday school most weeks, and afterward the former president introduced Dean as "my friend, our visitor and a fellow Christian."

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Take it up with the AP headline writer

edit for link: sorry, http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040119/ap_on_el_pr/dean&cid=694&ncid=716

[DemBones DemBones]

1. A very misleading headline indeed. It's

headlines like that, I suppose, that had people posting here last week that Carter had endorsed Dean.

[Democrats unite]

2. Funny I can't seem to find that headline...

Care to share a link with us?

[lurk_no_more]

4. Here's the link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040119/ap_on_el_pr/dean_4

It's a pretty innocuous article, a bit misleading, however it does say that "Carter offered kind words but no endorsement"

As I said it was a puff piece. Nowhere does it say Carter backs dean!


And then there were none!
” JAFO”

[lurk_no_more]

3. I think most of the truth of what really happened

has already come out on this, so this puff peice will have little effect if any.


And then there were none!
” JAFO”

[Raya]

5. Does anyone else wonder how that headline got written that way?

Campaign history is full of this sort of thing. But it would be
a shame if it is going on now.

[dsc]

6. Yea Dean personally paid

the headline writer to write that headline after he paid Jimmy Carter to say nice things about him.

[stickdog]

7. OMG!

An unbiased headline!