Shades of George Bush-
Maybe because Hasan was said to be dead initially? …
“President Obama began his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday with these words: ‘This past Thursday, on a clear Texas afternoon, an Army psychiatrist walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, and began shooting his fellow soldiers.'”
“Did the president, speaking directly about the man suspected in the killings, prejudice any jury that might be called to hear the case? At the least, he appeared to fall afoul of a lesson that every journalism student — and law student — learns early: The safest way to avoid yourself some trouble is to couch such a flat assertion of guilt.”
