Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Yet Another Washington Post Edition)

Washington Post reporters Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Weisman conclude that the facts--what Bush said--are biased against Bush. They can't have that. So they clean it up.

Here's what Bush said:

Roundtable Interview of the President by the Press Pool: I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company.

Here's what they write:

Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid To Stop Port Deal : "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a [British] company," Bush told reporters.

Why must the readers of the Washington Post

be protected from knowing that Bush uses "Great British" as an adjective? I know, I know--both Jim and Jonathan are scared of offending Karl Rove.