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AFP FINALLY Corrects Their Labeling of Spitzer as an (R) -- Big Deal

By Seton Motley | March 14, 2008 - 10:08

NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center
Not Minding Their Ps & Qs
We on Thursday brought you the Agence France-Presse (AFP)'s ludicrous labeling of self-ousted New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as an (R). This after a week's worth of the Gong Show Media's failure or utter refusal to ascribe any Party affiliation to the man.

Well, we have heard word from the horse's ... mouth.

DScott, an intrepid NewsBusters participant, contacted AFP to point out their inanity. And in the wee small hours of Friday morning -- they wrote back.

DScott was generous enough to share it with us, and we now, in turn, share it with you: