Federal officials are defending their actions to prevent the failure of Wall Street's Bear Sterns quickly selling to banking giant JP Morgan Chase. 聯(lián)邦官員正為他們對華爾街的貝爾斯登公司迅速出售股票給銀行業(yè)巨頭摩根大通的保護行為辯解。
The New Yorker is defending the cartoon, saying the artist is satirizing the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign. 紐約人雜志辯解說(shuō)到，藝術(shù)家是以諷刺的表現形式來(lái)說(shuō)明在奧巴馬在總統競選中使用恐怖策略并誤導選民。
