AP's Babington Rolls Out Obama and Dems' Talking Points on Extending P

August 22nd, 2011 2:57 PM
The opening sentence of Charles Babington's "objective report" about the possible extension of what was billed late last year as a "temporary payroll tax cut" reads like a Democratic National Committee press release: "News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes." It doesn't get any better until the final paragraph. Babington's babble is otherwise a long-winded, chidish…

AP Headline Claims 'GOP Wants Small' Campaign Map; Story Has No Eviden

June 20th, 2011 10:54 PM
To be fair to the Associated Press's Charles Babington, he may not have written the headline applied to his early analysis ("Obama wants big 2012 campaign map, GOP wants small") of how the presidential electoral map looks. But what he wrote essentially fits the headline, but didn't provide any evidence that the Republican Party is only focusing on winning back the states lost by John McCain in…

AP’s Babington Warns of Damage ‘Hard-Right’ Positions Cause GOP

June 1st, 2011 1:43 AM
“GOP presidential contenders drift to the right,” reads the headline over a Monday night dispatch by the AP’s Charles Babington who devoted an entire story to fears “Republican candidates are drifting rightward on a range of issues, even though more centrist stands might play well in the 2012 general election.” (I caught a shortened version in Tuesday’s Washington Examiner.) “Independents,”…

Specter Loss Reminds AP Writer That Scott Brown Win Was 'Excruciating

May 19th, 2010 6:27 AM
With the loss of party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter Tuesday night, AP political writer Charles Babington was assigned the obligatory story "Obama endorsements don't seem to help Democrats." It's a fairly routine analysis until Babington had an Andrea Mitchell moment when he called Scott Brown's Senate win "excruciating." (In 1990, Mitchell told NBC viewers after a Jesse Helms victory that "This…

AP Writer Worries Scott Brown Election Imperils Obama's 'Audacious Pla

January 24th, 2010 9:05 AM
Associated Press writers haven’t overcome their tendency to describe President Obama’s plans as "audacious" – like they'd just finished leafing through their well-worn copy of Obama’s campaign book The Audacity of Hope. On Friday, a Charles Babington political analysis began: President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the U.S. health care system was in doubt Thursday as lawmakers rejected the…

AP's Babington Plays Obama/Dem Party Mouthpiece, Ignores CBO 'Double-C

December 26th, 2009 8:22 AM
The Associated Press should seriously consider renaming itself "Associated Dems" or "Associated Leftists." This morning, the AP's Charles Babington uncritically relays the latest Democratic Party talking point about its statist health care plan that has been passed in two very different forms in the House and Senate. The supposed point is that anyone who voted to create Medicare Part D in 2003…

LifeNews.com Busts AP Over Presence of Abortion Funding in Dems' Healt

August 6th, 2009 3:44 PM
Kudos to Steve Ertelt at LifeNews.com (the source of the graphic at the right) and to others in the pro-life community for getting the notoriously stubborn Associated Press to effectively back down on a false claim it made about the availability of abortion services in the version of the health care bill passed by a House Committee last week.On August 3, Ertelt wrote the following (link to AP…

APs Babington Misleads That Gates Arrested Because He's Black

July 25th, 2009 8:47 PM
In an "analysis" on how President Obama is dealing with the race issue, AP writer Charles Babington seems to have based his take on what happened to Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the assumption that Gates was arrested for being black in his home, not that he was arrested for disorderly conduct and for his outrageous disrespect for a police officer -- something to which other police…

AP's Labeling: Obama the 'Populist Crusader' vs. 'Hardline Conservativ

March 19th, 2009 9:09 AM

Bozell Column: Breathtakingly Bold Barack

March 3rd, 2009 10:51 PM

Gregg Quit, So What? AP Sour-Grapes Analysis Concludes Commerce Job 'O

February 13th, 2009 11:08 PM

Joining the Obama Pity Party, AP's Babington Avoids Describing Geithne

February 4th, 2009 1:02 AM
Yesterday was Pity the Poor President Day in Old Media.Early last night, I noted how the Associated Press's Ben Feller chose to characterize an already-planned visit by Barack and Michelle Obama to a DC elementary school as an "escape" that "surely made him happy for a while."A few hours ago, NB's Brent Baker reported with amazement the absurd attempts by CBS's Katie Couric and NBC's Brian…

AP Warns GOP Against 'Risky' Opposition to Debt

February 1st, 2009 11:11 PM

AP Ropeline Story an Excuse to Chronicle Obamalatry

October 20th, 2008 12:55 PM
In his October 20 feature "Obama ropelines: bouncing babies, controlled chaos," Associated Press writer Charles Babington found room to write about enthusiastic crowds reveling in the Obamessiah.The hosannas have already been sung in numerous stories of this variety from earlier in the campaign, but for some reason Babington thought fit to chronicle the cries of adulation from the Illinois…