H/T to Contrapositive at Collins Watch for this one. First, the newspaper puts up a highlighted page one headline with a glowing portrait of Senator Susan Collins reporting her invite to the Pope's birthday dinner at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C.:
Ooops, the dinner came off, but the Senator was denied her papal audience when the Pontiff failed to show:
This is how the Senator's re-election campaign operates here in the northern district of Maine. She gets a wall of free, positive media while she traipses around being Santa Claus with Homeland Security money, relief funds, economic development, and so on, as she also is shown "in" with the Pope. The newspaper is shameless in its promotion of her agenda. The BDN should be running a correction to the Monday story, and should be more careful about the "rumors" it publishes.
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