The Winner of the March 25th Daily Snipe is...

Bloomberg news, specifically Tim Mullaney.

Now, this isn't a traditional Snipe award. Mr. Mullaney isn't a liberal blogger and Bloomberg isn't a blog. The Snipe was just too good to ignore, mostly because HuffingtonPost decided to use his horrible headline...one of their more annoying habits that seems to annoy everyone on the site but they keep doing.

The title reads, on Bloomberg and HuffingtonPost:

Lobbyists Are First Winners in Obama’s Clean-Technology Push

Now, if that didn't make it seem like Obama had broken another campaign promise about change, I don't know what would, BUT, of course, that title has nothing to do with the reality of the situation (or even the article).

The key paragraph that somehow manages to be misleading while actually spelling out the reality of the situation:

The first jobs of the federal clean-energy stimulus plan are here -- and they’re for lobbyists. SmartSpark is part of a stampede of technology companies hiring insiders in Washington and state capitals to gain influence. They’re vying for a piece of last month’s $787 billion stimulus package.

So, because companies think that lobbyists might help them get some green-energy money, and are therefore hiring some with their own company money, the first "winners" in the technology push are lobbyists.

Yes, I'm sure they didn't mean for that to sound like the Obama administration had given money to lobbyists.

I wonder if his smack down/ignoring of the larger "traditional" media last night will lead to more inanity from the old guard? Answer appears to be...yes.

So, the focus will continue to be on liberals, particularly liberal bloggers, who make completely unhelpful, unoriginal, or just plain uninteresting criticism of policy before it's been fully worked out, but the presser's beatdown of the large-scale press might need to have them included...maybe that's what's Wednesdays will be for.