Last night, while reporting the story of the government shutdown's end, the Huffington Post used a red banner headline to call Republicans extortionists, and the accompanying photograph to suggest they were like Iranian hostage takers.

While the text of the Huffington Post story was straightforward:

The Senate voted 81 to 18 Wednesday night to reopen the federal government and raise the nation's borrowing limit, hours before the Treasury Department faced the possibility of being unable to pay all of America's bills for the first time in modern history.

The House followed suit, voting 285-144 to end the latest damaging battle of divided government in a polarized Congress.

President Barack Obama signed the legislation early Thursday. He said he would reopen the government immediately to "lift this cloud of uncertainty and unease" that settled on the nation and start fixing the damage.

The banner headline, "Extortionists Extinguished," along with the picture from the movie Argo revealed an anti-Republican bias. Argo is about a CIA agent who uses the ruse of filming a movie to rescue six Americans during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Note: This morning the Huffington Post revised the story changing the headline and photograph