Media Ignore Iranian President’s Call For Europe to Take Back Jews F
January 21st, 2006 11:37 AM
According to the Associated Press (hat tip to the Drudge Report), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday “challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel if Europe were to open its doors.” Strangely, a thorough Google and LexisNexis search identified that, until now, no major American media outlet has reported this new round…
AP Headlines Bush Slip Of The Tongue: Saddam the "Butcherer
January 19th, 2006 12:57 AM
The President met at the White House today with Iraqi victims of the regime of Saddam Hussein. After spending an hour or so with the victims, and families of victims, he allowed the press in for a couple of minutes. The AP decided that the most worthy piece of information on the day, the thing that belonged in the headline, was the fact that the President either mispronounced or stumbled on the…
AP Includes Irrelevancies to Criticize President Bush -- Again
January 16th, 2006 1:05 PM
Winston Churchill was once quoted as saying that "a fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Whether it's an actual Churchill quote or not, I'm not certain. I am certain, however, that it's an apt description of the Associated Press. They are, and have been, obsessed with the Bush administration's war on terrorism, and have repeatedly gone out of their way to drag…
Kudos to AP For Balanced Report on Abramoff and Congressional Corrupti
January 12th, 2006 10:25 PM
As has been widely reported by NewsBusters, the media have been actively misrepresenting the burgeoning Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal as being exclusively a Republican problem. Today, Jim Abrams of the Associated Press logged a report dealing with House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) assertions Thursday that Republicans have created "one of the most closed, corrupt congresses in…
Harry Belafonte Calls President Bush “The Greatest Terrorist in the
January 9th, 2006 10:09 PM
The Associated Press reported that American singer Harry Belafonte, as part of a delegation visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez that included actor Danny Glover and Princeton University scholar Cornel West, publicly stated that President Bush is “the greatest terrorist in the world.” “‘No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says…
AP's Jennifer Loven Spins Bush Speech as an "Attack" Only on Democrats
January 8th, 2006 9:42 PM
Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press is one of AP's regular reporters covering Mr. Bush and The White House. She also has an obvious conflict of interest, as her husband, Roger Ballentine, was a senior adviser to John Kerry on energy and environmental issues during the 2004 presidential campaign. Ballentine is currently president of Green Strategies, Inc., an environmental consulting and…
