The branding of the Associated Press used to be just-the-facts news. But today, they uncork snotty commentaries without even slapping the word “News Analysis” on it. Get a load of this headline today:

Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’

Reporter Calvin Woodward uncorked nothing but editorializing about "cascading failures and incompetencies" under Trump:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America’s very institutions? When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system that exists to prepare, protect, prevent and cut citizens a check in a national crisis. The molecular menace posed by the new coronavirus has shaken the conceit of “American exceptionalism” like nothing big enough to see with your own eyes. A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition and aspirations through the arc of history to be humanity’s “shining city upon a hill” cannot come up with enough simple cotton swabs despite the wartime manufacturing and supply powers assumed by President Donald Trump. The crisis turned doctors in the iconic American shining city, New York, into beggars with hands outstretched for ponchos because they couldn’t get proper medical gowns. “Rain ponchos!” laments tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. “In 2020! In America!”

Woodward should have just used the headline “SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.” Or “THIS COUNTRY SUCKS.” AP's editorializing tweet claimed America only leads today in coronavirus deaths (forget the per-capita stuff):

This so-called Objective Reporter had more editorializing to do: