Red Meat Political Commentary

Well, this one is really going to set the fur to flying, but here goes nothing.

The AP has been hammered throughout the right wing blogosphere for its left leaning tendencies. And there was a certain sameness to their headlines regarding civil strife in Iraq which did not become crystalized in my mine until this very day.

On the Yahoo homepage, the AP headlines always use "at least" when ambiguiosly referring to casualties. Today for example;

As of 6:07 p.m. EST • Iraq suicide blast kills at least 39 at Sunni mosque

May I suggest in the name of objectivity, that the AP start observing some journalistic standards and use "no more than" rather than "at least". I mean, if they have arrived at some rough estimate, see how much better this sounds;

Iraq suicide blast kills no more than 39 at Sunni mosque

The whole episode becomes more palatable with the hard cap of "no more than" rather than the heightened expectations of "at least".