If the facts won't support you, lie like hell.....

This is nothing but a slanted, sleazy bunch of spin masquerading as reporting.

From Tom Brune, Newsday:

Democrats returned to the issue of abortion yesterday, repeatedly pushing Alito
to say he thought Roe was settled law, suggesting it will not be easily
overturned, as Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. had in his recent confirmation
hearings. But Alito doggedly refused to do so, indicating that Roe is still very
much in play.

Emphasis mine.


From an AP report bylined Jesse Holland:

"I don't think it's appropriate for me to speak about issues that could
realistically come up" before the courts, he said, falling back on a line also
used by now-Chief Justice John Roberts and other Supreme Court members during
their confirmation hearings.
Unlike Roberts, who said during his confirmation
hearing last year that he thought
Roe v. Wade 'was "settled law," Alito said
it was a precedent that should be respected. He would neither agree nor disagree
that it was settled law when asked repeatedly by Durbin.

Emphasis mine.

Note the spin imparted by the Newsday "reporter". Alito SAID NO SUCH THING, but the reporter reports as fact that he did.

But the MSM says it is objective and reports fact, right? Uh Huh. They are counting on readers not being able to read discriminatingly.