AOL STILL SUCKS

Even after Steve Case leaves, as well as CNN chief Walter "Let's be nice to the Republicans and maybe they'll give us interviews!" Isaacson, the "Welcome" page just can't help itself.

Sure, there's a link to the AP story on how Dubya's approval rating has dropped to 58%, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. But on that "welcome" page, the bold headline is:

Loved, but Not as Much

Loved? LOVED??? How exactly does 58% translate to "loved"? That slightly more than half of the voting public has at least reasonable approval of the job he's doing, that amounts to "love"?

Riddle me this, AOL: On the day that the Republican congress impeached President Clinton, his approval rating was 73%. Going by AOL's logic, that means that at that moment, he was 15% more loved than Bush is now. But somehow I doubt AOL put it that way at the time.

This is about approval, not "love". So America has to love this guy now? And they call Krugman crazy for suggesting that the administration's trying to build a personality cult around the chimp.