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I Couldn't Eat Another Bite, I'm…98 Percent Empty?

03/12/2009 by Jim Naureckas

Under the Onion-ready headline "Obama Calls for Earmark Reform, Signs Earmark-Laden Spending Bill," (3/12/09), the L.A. Times' James Oliphant and Christi Parsons begin their story:

President Obama railed against pork barrel projects on Wednesday. Then he signed a massive spending bill stuffed with them.

I'm not sure what the cut-off for something being "stuffed" with something else is, but I'm pretty sure that 2 percent doesn't qualify. Maybe the word they're looking for is "sprinkled"?

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One Response to “I Couldn't Eat Another Bite, I'm…98 Percent Empty?”

  1. FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NBC Follows Comedic Code in Earmark Reporting Says:
    December 16th, 2010 at 11:14 am

    [...] spending is directed to legislator-specified projects--generally without pointing out what a tiny fraction of total spending this is, or that without the earmarking this money would be spent anyway, on some [...]

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