Amy Sullivan of Time launches a nearly 1,200-word report on President Obama and Notre Dame University with this ludicrous sentence: “At the rate things are going, Pope Benedict XVI may find his next trip to the U.S. dogged by airplanes overhead trailing banners with images of aborted fetuses.” Sullivan qualifies this language in her next sentence, calling it “a bit of hyperbole,” but the rest of her report proceeds in a similar vein, arguing that an article in L’Osservatore Romano “essentially urg[ed] the bishops to chill out” on Obama. She repeatedly confuses diplomatic silence with tacit endorsement of the university’s decision.