On Sunday's This Week, host and former Clinton bimbo-blaster George Stephanopoulos brought on Associated Press Executive Editor Julie Pack to discuss Ukraine, and then of course, the AP being kept out of the White House press pool because they're #Resistance media. They picked the weird battle of refusing to write "Gulf of America" because they hate President Trump that much.
Stephanopoulos cued Pace with a softball: "One of the things I want to ask you about, Julie, the executive order of the Associated Press. The Associated Press has now been blocked from basically from covering the White House because you refuse to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Where do things stand right now? How has it affected your coverage?"
On #ThisWeek, @AP chief @JuliePace: “We’re a global, independent, nonpartisan news organization.” Not just about Gulf of America, “also about something so much bigger, this is about freedom of speech...We’re there to be the eyes and ears for Americans and people around the world” pic.twitter.com/OH6PLmOBNp
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) March 2, 2025
Pace lied, claiming AP is "independent" and "nonpartisan," as if Pace didn't co-author a smoochy biography of Jill Biden, as if AP didn't publish sickly sweet campaign story on Kamala Harris's favorite foods. But you're supposed to buy that AP embodies the First Amendment, and don't look at anything they actually publish!
PACE: Sure. Thank you for asking. So I think, you know, the first thing I would say is the Associated Press is 179 years old. We're a global, independent, non-partisan news organization that's had a commitment to covering the White House since our founding. And you know, really you mentioned this is about Gulf of America, Gulf of Mexico, you know, yes, it's about that, but it's also about something so much bigger. You know, this is about freedom of speech and that is a principle, a right that Americans across the political spectrum believe in deeply.
This is about whether the government can control the language that we use, that ordinary people can use. And it's about whether the government can retaliate against you if you don't use the language that they prefer. So we are standing up for that right, not just for the AP, but for all independent news organizations and for the public because we believe, again, that this is a principle, freedom of speech that all Americans, regardless of their political party, should believe in.
Part of this fight is about how AP's Stylebook is the one who tries to control the language that people use by imposing their own woke linguistic judgments on AP clients and the media as a whole. The Stylebook isn't "independent" or "nonpartisan." It's pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ just for starters. But George is just cuing up the Hero Routine:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Any sense of how it's going to end?
PACE: We certainly hope that it results in us being allowed back into cover White House events because we're there to be the eyes and ears for Americans and people around the world.
AP is the goo-goo eyes for the Democrats and the ear-boxers for the Republicans.
