"strong language of Mr. Gibbs": the New York Times and its spin

" Robert Gibbs, saying that the Egyptian vice president “made some particularly unhelpful comments about Egypt not being ready for democracy, about not seeing a lift of the emergency law.”...The strong language from Mr. Gibbs..."  Strong language? Referring to his anti-democratic remarks as "unhelpful" is strong language?  This is like referring to settlements as "unhelpful".  Well, yeah. That is the correct analogy, surprisingly.