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Weasels: In Its 'Corrected' Story, AP Fails to Tag Obama's 'Gulf Ports
August 9th, 2013 10:33 AM
Following blowback which began at Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com and spread to Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and surely other online locales, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, has issued a thoroughly unsatisfying "correction" to the story I covered here Wednesday about President Obama's "Gulf ports" gaffe.
The fix applied to the original story by Russ "Nobody's Fool" Bynum's…

Two People Who 'Asked To Be Removed' From Politico Story About OFA Hel
August 6th, 2013 6:22 PM
If there was a daily prize for "Propaganda Tool of the Day," Politico would have won it both yesterday and today.
Yesterday, as Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters noted, the web site changed the title of an embarrassing report by Kyle Cheney on low attendance at an Organizing For America event from "Poor attendance at Obamacare event in Virginia" (number of volunteers who showed up: one) to "…
Politico Howler: 'Glenn Beck’s Empire, Not Influence, Grows
August 4th, 2013 6:50 PM
If ever a story had the earmarks of being agenda-driven from the get-go, Mackenzie Weinger's writeup at the Politico on Glenn Beck published Saturday morning fits the bill.
Weinger's premise is that Beck will never be as influential as he once was as long as he doesn't have a cable news program and continues to branch into entertainment-related ventures consistent with his beliefs. Excerpts,…

New Haven Register: Fox, Coulter, the GOP, Nugent, Some of Its Readers
July 30th, 2013 11:57 PM
Those who falsely smear the other side in an attempt to make an argument tend to do so because they have run out of real ones. It would appear that the New Haven Register's argument cupboard is completely barren of everything but poisonous rhetoric.
In an opinion piece which I can hardly believe is a house editorial, the Register characterizes Ann Coulter, Fox News, the Republican Party,…
AP: Gathering of 75 in Des Moines Shows 'Iowa Residents Largely Suppor
July 30th, 2013 3:28 PM
Who knew that merely getting just over six dozen people together to support having Iowa "expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul" would earn coverage from the Associated Press -- and then be treated as some kind of groundswell of support?
Well, it did. The item involved, complete with a headline which makes it appears if some kind of poll might have gauged Iowans'…

Breathless AP 'Exclusive': '4 in 5 in U.S. Face Near-Poverty, No Work
July 28th, 2013 3:27 PM
If you've been wondering where the Associated Press's 2013 entry into the "Worst AP Report Ever" contest has been hiding, have no fear. It's here. Oh, it's not as bad as the current worst-ever leader, the laughably execrable "Everything seemingly is spinning out of control" in June 2008. Nevertheless, it's a "strong" entry -- as in almost indescribably weak as journalism.
The AP's (Abandon…

Obama: Ho Chi Minh 'Inspired' by the Declaration, Jefferson; Press Cov
July 27th, 2013 8:38 PM
At the White House on Thursday, President Obama let his radical leftist slip show when he accepted a 67 year-old letter from from Ho Chi Minh to U.S. President Harry Truman given to him by Vietnam's current president Truong Tan Sang and spoke of the letter's contents: "... we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and…

Politico Goes to Pot While Ignoring IRS Scandal Developments
July 27th, 2013 9:56 AM
Pretty much all you need to know about the current negligent media culture in Washington is summed up in two items involving the Politico's home page this morning -- one which is there, and one which isn't.
The featured story at top of the home page by Byron Tau is about infighting between "Big Marijuana" -- it seems like "Big Pot" would be a more succinct nickname -- and those who want to…
Press Perpetuates 'Iced Tea' Myth in Coverage of Zimmerman Verdict and
July 22nd, 2013 11:06 AM
Update, July 24: In audio found here at my home blog, Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara, in a Tuesday discussion with New York talk show host Steve Malzberg, confirmed the accuracy of the "iced tea myth"-related details in this post and in Bill Whittle's video.
Among the more outrageous aspects of the press's negligent coverage of the circumstances surrounding the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman…

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: Detroit Bankruptcy the Result of Small G
July 21st, 2013 10:46 AM
Melissa Harris-Perry, one of the panel guests on MSNBC's "Now" program on Friday, managed to tie Detroit's bankruptcy to small government, i.e., "when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub," and to analogize it to "exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us." Really.
The relevant transcript from RealClearPolitics, followed by comments from Erika Johnsen…

Not News at AP or Politico: DOJ's Involvement in Ginning Up Anti-Zimme
July 14th, 2013 11:54 PM
Imagine if -- and you'd have to imagine it, because it never happened -- the George W. Bush administration had sent members of its Justice Department to a city where a black man charged with murder was claiming self-defense in the killing of a non-African-American for the purposes of ginning up protests against the accused. Establishment press coverage and would have been justifiably intense…

FAIL: AP Official Claims Offensive Tweeter Cristina Silva (Latest Repo
July 14th, 2013 10:32 AM
Apparently, Associated Press Media Relations Director Paul Colford is unaware of the sage advice that when one is in a deep hole, it's best to stop digging.
Shortly after the George Zimmerman verdict, AP reporter Cristina Silva, as noted late last night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog; HT Breitbart.com) tweeted "So We Can All Kill Teenagers Now? Just Checking." A short time ago, Colford sent me…

AP Reporter's Reax to Zimmerman Verdict: 'So We Can All Kill Teenagers
July 13th, 2013 11:59 PM
An ever so objective Associated Press reporter didn't handle a Florida jury's acquittal of George Zimmerman too well tonight.
Cristina Silva took the verdict to mean it's open season on teenagers (HT Breitbart):

AP Pair Covering Texas Abortion Bill Passage Almost Completely Ignores
July 13th, 2013 10:34 AM
The story at the Associated Press this morning on the Texas Senate's passage of legislation which, as summarized at Life News, "would ban abortions after 20 weeks and hold abortion clinics accountable by making them meet basic health and safety standards," claims to originate from Austin, the Lone Star State's capital city.
The coverage by AP reporters Chris Tomlinson and Will Weissert has…