Wash. Post's Connolly reported Obama and Grassley "gently sparred" but omitted comments undermining her characterization

SUMMARY: Washington Post reporter Ceci Connolly claimed that President Obama "gently sparred" with Sen. Charles Grassley over Obama's "proposal to offer a government-sponsored insurance option to people who do not have coverage" and that Grassley "argued that the 'public option' would make government 'an unfair competitor' to private insurers." But Connelly's characterization of their exchange as one of "gentl[e] sparr[ing]" is undermined by comments by Obama that she omitted.

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