odd definitions of these words

Blitzer, Hannity praised Steele's "spectacular" and "principled" campaign, ignoring misleading campaign tactics

Summary: Wolf Blitzer failed to challenge the assertion of Michael Steele, a losing Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Maryland, that he "did not see ... until a couple of days after the fact" a flier that misleadingly referred to "Ehrlich-Steele Democrats" and falsely suggested that certain prominent African-American Maryland Democrats endorsed Steele and Republican Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Both Blitzer and Sean Hannity praised Steele's campaign in their interviews with him without noting Steele's 10-point margin of defeat.

(Media Matters)
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Odd choice of words, since they lost decisively even while pretending to be Dems! I guess that is spectacular and principled in the Fox world!