CNN’s Carol Costello criticized the Fox News website for calling the government shutdown a “slimdown.”
The site has persisted in its unique choice of descriptor, even contradicting the network’s actual television coverage.
“Tell that to the roughly 800,000 federal workers going home without a paycheck,” Costello said on Wednesday. While Congress continues to play politics with their jobs and continues to make money, I’m not so sure they would consider this a ‘slimdown.'”
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Ranger Dean Paulk posts a closure sign in the window of the visitors center at Shiloh National Millitary Park Tuesday, October 1, 2013 in Shiloh, Tenn. Paulk an enforcement officer, is considered necessary to the security of the park and will stay on duty through the shutdown, most of
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