Um
WSJ's Washington Wire on the Barack Obama's on-again, off-again lapel pin, which is somehow a campaign issue [emphasis mine]:
The pin also comes as Obama focuses on attacking likely Republican nominee John McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war who wears his patriotism on his sleave (and his lapel).
Um ...


Do AP cameras have some sort of lapel-pin-removing filter that I don't know about? No, that can't be it, even McCain does wear a lapel pin in web ads his own campaign produces:
If the press can't report properly on even trumped up pointless issues, what good is it?
I would have asked "What's a sleave?", and picked on the WSJ's lousy spell check, but lo and behold:
sleave
n. Archaic
A fine thread or skein of thread.
[From Middle English *sleven, to disentangle, from Old English *slfan, to cut, from slf, past tense of slfan, to split.]
Who knew?
Posted by: jfaberrit | May 14, 2008 at 09:11 PM
Well that makes sense. If McCain's lapel pin is on a small thread, no wonder cameras can't pick it up. It's very tiny. He's such a maverick, so humble.
Posted by: Trevor J | May 15, 2008 at 03:09 AM
jfaberrit,
They use the archaic form of the word because McCain's the one who first used it.
Posted by: Stephen | May 15, 2008 at 06:17 AM