Former Republican Governor of Massachusetts William Weld, who is now running for Governor of New York as a Republican, has discovered a whole new way to spin the news. When his staff doesn't like the news coverage, they just change it:
As William F. Weld runs for governor of New York this year, his campaign has put a new spin on the old political rule of having a positive message.Truthfulness has never been an obstacle for the GOP -- and they despise the media...so in their warped minds, this new approach probably makes sense. You do have to wonder if this is a new party wide strategy -- I doubt it was an isolated incident.
Campaign aides have significantly altered two newspaper articles on his Web site about his bid for governor, removing all negative phrases about him, like "mini-slump" and "dogged by an investigation," and passages about his political problems.
Also removed were references to a federal investigation of Decker College, a Kentucky trade school that Mr. Weld led until he left to run for governor last fall; the college collapsed into bankruptcy weeks later amid allegations of financial aid fraud. And criticism of Mr. Weld by a former New York Republican senator, Alfonse D'Amato, was removed.
The Weld campaign placed the sanitized articles, still under the reporters' bylines, on its Web site, weldfornewyork.org , under the heading "news." Nothing told readers about the changes.
