AP Again Omits Disgraced Ex-Atlantic City Mayor's Party Affiliation
November 1st, 2007 5:44 PM
Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy (D) pleaded guilty today to lying about his military service in order to obtain financial benefits to which he was not entitled. Levy is a Democrat, but keeping with AP tradition, his party affiliation was not disclosed in Geoff Mulvihill's 8-paragraph article "Former Atlantic City Mayor Pleads Guilty." (h/t NewsBusters reader Martin Edward)NewsBusters…
Seattle P-I Columnist Slams College GOP As Unwitting Tools of Neocons
November 1st, 2007 3:07 PM
Mindless, publicity-seeking pawns of eeeevil neocons. That's how Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert L. Jamieson Jr. sees College Republicans at the University of Washington. Jamieson's gripe, the recently-observed Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week:Maybe the stunt was fun and games for the publicity-seeking Republican college group. But it's serious business for the folks behind last week's…
Republican Accused of Gay Sex? AP Will Be Sure to Mention in Lede
October 31st, 2007 11:45 AM
In the same vein as NewsBusters Warner Todd Huston's earlier blog today about labeling bias, the Associated Press found a Republican politician's alleged episode of gay sex worthy not only of mentioning his party affiliation, but of doing so in the lede.SPOKANE -- A Republican state legislator from southwest Washington had sex with a man he met at an erotic video store and then told police he had…
AP's Chet Brokaw Has Double Standard on Politicians Accused of Sex Cri
October 31st, 2007 4:47 AM
Democrats never get "outed" as Democrats by the MSM if they are accused of crimes and corruption, but if they are Republicans... well, that party affiliation is rarely held back by that same media. Some may have scoffed at this claim that GOPers are always outed while Dems are always shielded, but here is so perfect an example of it that it almost seems that we wrote it ourselves as a Halloween…
Time's Joe Klein: Romney Running as 'Troglodyte,' Duncan Hunter a 'Fru
October 24th, 2007 4:59 PM
Time's Joe Klein, aka the Anonymous who wrote "Primary Colors," painted a very nasty portrait of the crop of 2008 Republican candidates for the presidency on his October 24 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Particularly of note, Klein referred to the former Republican governor of Massachusetts as a "troglodyte.":Look at Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney, you know, ran as a liberal against Ted Kennedy…
FBI: LA State Senator is Money Laundering -- Did AP Mention He's a Dem
October 24th, 2007 3:43 AM
Today it's being reported that Louisiana State Senator Derrick Shepherd stands accused by the FBI of money laundering. The AP duly reported the messy story surrounding this charge, of course. Their story was long and exhaustive for an AP report. Only one tiny, little thing seems to have been forgotten by the AP. They seem to have forgotten to mention that Shepherd is a Democrat. I know...…
CBS’s Hannah Storm Labels Ann Coulter 'Right-wing,' Praises ‘Chris
October 18th, 2007 4:48 PM
In an interview with televangelist Joel Osteen and his wife on Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Hannah Storm began the segment by asking Osteen: "Last week, conservative right-wing pundit Ann Coulter made waves, she said, quote, "Christians consider themselves perfected Jews,"saying that it would be "a lot easier for Jews if they would become Christians." What did you make of her remarks?" In…
