In AP writer Anne Flaherty's piece headlined "Pelosi: Mideast Trip Strengthened Ties", there are two egregious examples of blatant anti-Bush bias that attempt to deliberately deceive its readers.

http://www.breitbart...

The last sentence of the article reads:

"Bush earlier in the week assailed Pelosi for making the trip to Damascus, saying it sent mixed messages to the Syrian government, which his administration considers to be a state supporter of terrorism."

An unknowing reader would take from this that it is uniquely Bush administration policy to consider Syria a state supporter of terrorism.

Syria has been on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism since the list's inception in 1979, when Democratic President Jimmy Carter was in the White House.

http://www.state.gov...

In the article's opening sentence, Flaherty writes:

"WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deflecting White House criticism of her trip to Syria, said Friday she thinks the mission helped President Bush because it showed the United States is unified against terrorism despite being divided over the Iraq war."

It would be appropriate to cite, specifically, "White House criticism", if it was uniquely the Bush administration or only Republicans being critical of Pelosi's trip to Syria.

However, in this instance, the liberal editorial boards of both the Washington Post and USA Today took Speaker Pelosi to task for going on an "ill-conceived...out of bounds...foolish" trip.

http://blogs.usatoda...

http://www.washingto...