Roberts Confirmed; AP In A Snit

Oh, those little words that tell so much.

In reporting on Roberts' strong showing in the Senate -- 78 for, 22 pro-abortion fanatics against -- AP slipped in a bit of prejudice. Way down in paragraph 10, AP couldn't fully hold back its liberal displeasure with the nomination:

"With the confirmation of John Roberts, the Supreme Court will embark upon a new era in its history, the Roberts era," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., whose 55 GOP members unanimously voted for the multimillionaire judge. (emphasis added)

What in the world does that have to do with anything? When DiFi was questioning Roberts, did AP refer to her as the "multimillionaire senator?" And I wonder why the reporter, Jesse J. Holland, didn't bother to include this:

At least 40 of the 100 US senators are millionaires, some many times over, according to financial disclosure filings submitted last month. Republicans on the list outnumbered Democrats by a narrow margin of 22 to 18. However, Democratic senators hold the top five spots on the list and eight of the top ten, according to an analysis of the forms by CNN.

Well, Holland is left to slip in his little invectives while we get a strict constitutionalist for life. Not a bad deal.