Covering the all-important White House crasher story, Politico and the AP come to drastically different conclusions even though both are working off the same set of facts. It seems Politico just wanted to improve its version of the story.

From the AP, headline:

WH gate-crashers went without confirmed invitation

Lede:

Copies of e-mails between the White House party crashers and a Pentagon official undermine their claims that they were invited to President Barack Obama's first state dinner.

Seems pretty straight forward, right? The party crashers, contrary to their public claims, had no invitation and nobody associated with the WH told them they did. In fact, the AP confirmed that the WH liaison called the party crashers hours before the state dinner and confirmed that they did not have invites:

Now look at how Politico spins that very same AP report. Headline:

W.H. Liaison Implicated in the E-mails?

Note the use of the question mark. Politico, basing its report solely on the AP article, cannot even remotely suggest the WH emails implicated the liaison--the facts simply don't support the claim--so Politico does the next best Drudgy thing and poses it as a question.