Romney Respectfully Meets and Thanks Plane Full of Veterans

Okay, styling fails. Good to know.

I just got around to adding it to my heap o'links, and I needed to sound off. As this is a couple of days old, I might've put this on today's Saturday Grudge, but ~sob~ there isn't one.

Here's the actual news in the article:

Just minutes before Romney was scheduled to leave town on his campaign plane Wednesday… a Boeing 737 named Ely… flew in loaded with Ohio veterans returning from a day-long tourist trip to Washington… touched down at Toledo’s airport and parked a few hundred yards from Romney’s plane…. Romney walked across the tarmac to greet the returning World War II and Korean War veterans. He shook their hands, one by one, as they deplaned on a ramp from their Miami Air charter jet. “Thank you for your service,” Romney said, over and over again. “Welcome home.”

Now, here's the whole article, with Philip Rucker's propaganda re-inserted:

Just when you thought Mitt Romney couldn’t catch a break, he got one.

It came in the form of a Boeing 737 named Ely, which flew in loaded with Ohio veterans returning from a day-long tourist trip to Washington.

Just minutes before Romney was scheduled to leave town on his campaign plane Wednesday, to the pleasant surprise of campaign aides, Ely touched down at Toledo’s airport and parked a few hundred yards from Romney’s plane.

The Republican presidential nominee, who polls show is trailing President Obama in Ohio, sensed an opportunity to show his support for military veterans. So shortly after 8 p.m., Romney walked across the tarmac to greet the returning World War II and Korean War veterans. He shook their hands, one by one, as they deplaned on a ramp from their Miami Air charter jet.

“Thank you for your service,” Romney said, over and over again. “Welcome home.”

The press corps dutifully recorded the moment and beamed the images across Ohio and the country. And with that, Romney may have won over a few more voters.

SSsssssiiiiiggghhhhhh! Do people like Rucker know they're outright writing propaganda editorials, or are they so intellectually insulated they really think that's journalism?