Kathy Ruemmler spent Wednesday in front of the House Oversight Committee, explaining her years of friendly dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. That's the story. Now look at the name tag every headline pinned on her. * Fox News: "'She saw dollar signs': Former Obama counsel pressed over years-long Epstein ties." NBC: "Epstein was a 'masterful liar,' former Obama counsel said during House Oversight Committee questioning." CNN: "Former Obama White House attorney says 'it was a mistake' to deal with Epstein." * Former Obama counsel. Three newsrooms, one name tag. Ruemmler ran Obama's White House counsel office from 2011 to 2014 — she handed back that badge twelve years ago, the same summer the Epstein meetings started showing up on his schedule. * Because here's the part the name tag skips: during the actual friendship — the 50-plus planned meetings on Epstein's schedules between 2014 and 2019 — she was a partner at Latham & Watkins, a corporate law firm. That's the employer that was on her business card for every one of those lunches, and it has the headline presence of a ghost. * And don't worry, these outlets can locate her other jobs when the story moves. In February, when she resigned over the exact same emails, CNN's headline read "Kathy Ruemmler, top Goldman Sachs lawyer, resigning amid Epstein fallout." NBC went with "Kathy Ruemmler leaves Goldman Sachs amid Epstein files fallout." Bloomberg: "Goldman's Top Lawyer Ruemmler to Leave Over Epstein Ties." * Same woman. Same emails. When the story was a Wall Street resignation, the tag said Goldman. The moment it moved to a Republican-run committee room, the tag flipped to Obama — a title she'd already given up by the time the lunches started. * Fox squeezed the most juice out of the swap. Its headline zinger — "she saw dollar signs" — actually came from a Democrat, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, at a bipartisan grilling. Neither of those words made the headline. "Obama" did, and it's in there doing all the lifting. * A job title in a headline is a choice about whose brand wears the scandal. This week the menu had three options: the law firm where the friendship actually happened, the bank that paid her until June 30, or a president who last signed off on her work in 2014. Guess which one won the second there were cameras.