At AP, It's 'LightWhat'?
So I figure that I need to catch up on the LightSquared saga. This is the company which, as Fox News reported on Thursday (the URL date is September 15, though the time stamp is the next day) is building "a nationwide, next-generation, 4G phone network."
The problem is, as Fox further noted, that there are concerns that "many, including (General William) Shelton, think (the network) would seriously hinder the effectiveness of high-precision GPS receiver systems, a product used most commonly by the United States military." Shelton told a congresspersons "in a classified briefing earlier this month" that he was asked by the Obama administration to change (but apparently didn't) his testimony about said dangers.
So I went to the Associated Press's main page at 9:50 this evening, did a search on the company's name, and got back the following:
Here it is:
Really.
A search on the "Light Squared" (not in quotes), done in case the Essential Global News Network's crack team of investigative reporters thought the company's name might be two words, also came up empty.
A search on "Falcone," the last name of the billionaire heavy-hitting Democrat donor who is LightSquared's CEO -- forget about it.
Finally, while a Google News search on the company's name (sorted by date, with duplicates) returned 550 items (the first pages said 718, but it was really 550), a Google News search from September 12-20 on [LightSquared "Associated Press"] (typed exactly as indicated between brackets) came back with two items -- neither of which tied to any AP-authored items.
Reuters has something. Bloomberg has something. Even UPI has something, for heaven's sake.
It takes a special talent for Obama administration butt-covering to be this completely negligent about following a news story found in over 500 other places. I guess everyone at AP has been too busy serving as White House stenographers to notice.
Anyone wondering why they haven't heard or seen a word about LightSquared coming from an AP-subscribing news outlet now knows why.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Thanks, Tom
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 10:48pm.
I imagine you'd get similar results from an AP search on Holder + Obama + Brian Terry + border agent.
Which would trigger ....
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 11:14pm.
.... an automated email to AttackWatch.com.
→ Guess I better zip it, huh?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 11:18pm.
BRB, Tom. Somebody's at the door.
Suddenly I feel like I'm behind the Iron Curtain
Submitted by Gary Hall on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 2:11am.
.. that was funny . . a bit scary . . guys. Big dude is watching.
(;~/ gary
PS - Tom. AP is still recovering from the shock that they actually wrote a piece on Obama's Buffet Tax lie; what do you expect from them in one week?
Thank you Tom
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 10:59pm.
Just wonder what has been going on in this WH for the past three years that no one is aware of and, that is a horrible thought............
Newsweek - NewsBeast
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 11:03pm.
The feature photo is President Obama present Dakota Meyer with the "Medal of Freedom" (sic).
The question that must be
Submitted by celator on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:19am.
The question that must be asked: Was Obama willing to risk national security to pay back a financial donor?
Then, the answer must be....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 11:37am.
"Yes."
If he's willing to violate SEC rules by screwing GM bond holders and giving the company to the UAW what's a little national security?
I don't know about national
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 1:11am.
I don't know about national security, however, there is one thing Obama IS risking with LightSquared - his personal money. Barack Obama is a STOCK HOLDER OF LIGHTSQUARED. His stock is NOT in a blind trust as is normally done to shield the President from the appearance of impropriety, thus Barack Obama has an overriding active interest in the financial outcome of LightSquared.
No one should grouse at a President for holding stock, however, given the undue influence of his ownership, the right thing to do, the ethical thing to do to preserve the credibility of the office is to place all holdings in a blind trust. Barack Obama has not done so and gave the ridiculus excuse of "transparency" as his reason to actively manage his stock portfolio. So now the questions start, is Obama still a stock holder? If not, how much if any did he profit from the sale of a stock in a company that clearly was well politically connected and favored by the government?
It seems that Barack Obama is very adept on capitalizing on his name, first his books (all about him) and now stocks. I can't think of a surer way to make a quick buck than to have the President of the US buy stock in a publicly traded company, then see the stock move up due to this Imprimatur effect and then sell at a handsome profit. It's a day traders wet dream. What a great way to get a payoff without calling it a payoff. Why, that's almost as good as buying land for next to nothing then selling it to your neighbor for market value...or even better, your neighbor buying a parcel of land at market value and then selling it to you for next to nothing.
http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/09/obama-an-early-investor-in-lightsq...
This is no surprise, it is
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 2:36am.
This is no surprise, it is obvious there has been collusion between the DNC and the media. The problem is that the average person cannot ascertain the truth when these propagandists start to censor information.
Good article. Bravo, Tom.
Submitted by compman on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 6:44am.
Good article. Bravo, Tom.
Big "Brother"
Submitted by compguytracy on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 8:37am.
It is so scary, it almost makes me laugh in fear, like a horror movie, Orwell was right, just not as severe as 1984, but just as bleak, thinkspeak, thoughtcrime, ministry of hate, all true, all real, just waiting for the knock at the doo..............................
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" Orwell, 1984
Ceteris paribus
Absence of evidence...
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:01am.
In this case the absence is proof of either abject incompetence or willfull collusion with the administration.
Either way, the AP has proved (once again) that they are utterly useless as a journalistic entity, but very skilled as a propaganda outlet for the DNC.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Shades of the Soviet Union....
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:09am.
when people and things disappeared and got "air-brushed" out of history.....
I have a feeling
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:10am.
We wont know the extent of corruption from this admin for years to come. Between the media and there lies, maybe longer. Like Clinton, these cretins will offer Obama high praise for the rest of his years, regardless of the corruption he is found to involved in.
Ahhh...the Bart Simpson defense
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:26am.
Ahhh...the Bart Simpson defense..."I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything."
The Obama Administation is wholly corrupt
Submitted by JLin on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 10:02am.
Crony Marxism. Obama is the greatest threat to America's national security. He has to be impeached immediately if not sooner.
It's the "Chicago Way"[tm]
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 10:17am.
It's the "Chicago Way"[tm]
™
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:41pm.
You mean the CHICAGO WAY™
Upgrade
Submitted by djaymick on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:38pm.
I guess the AP writers are looking for Obama to take James Carville's advise to fire some people, hoping to get plum jobs in the Administration.
read this, this morning.
Submitted by soosan on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:59pm.
keep plugging away Tom. what goes around comes around and our President is in for a rude awakening because of his lack of integrity. Is this the same media that gave us the Nixon/Bebe Rebozo scandal? My how media values change....
Well, well, well it seems the
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:01pm.
Well, well, well it seems the usual list of suspects were involved in LightSquared - George Soros. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/soros-turns-obamas-li...
Oh and Obama had $90,000 invested in the company. Now where do you suppose a man who was deeply in debt at the time got $90k to risk on a venture capital investment???? He then sells 9 months later for a loss of $13,000? I smells a rotten egg. Sounds more like he walked off with a $77,000 gift.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/us/politics/08obama.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq...