AP Scolds Republicans for 'Noncompliance' Over Stimulus $... But is Th
April 1st, 2009 4:49 AM
The Associated Press did a masterful job of portraying Republican Governors as perpetrating "noncompliance" for how they want to spend Obama's education stimulus money. But, even as the AP spends the top half of a story wagging fingers at those nasty Republicans for not spending Obama's generous gift the right way, buried in the story it is revealed that the fault is really with how the stimulus…
AP Confuses Criticism of Obama With 'Racial Slurs
March 31st, 2009 3:53 AM
Proving that the left cannot tell the difference between "racism" and "criticism," the AP posted a lengthy March 30 story confusing and conflating the two as it pertains to attacks on President Obama. As far as the AP is concerned it seems the whole country is running around with burning crosses and wearing pointy hoods aiming to cast racial epithets at Obama at every turn. It may as well still…
The 'GM CEO Resigns at Obama's Request' Open Thread
March 29th, 2009 10:44 PM
Did you feel the earth shake under your feet in the past couple of hours?It's because GM CEO Rick Wagoner has resigned...at the request of President Barack Obama.As reported moments ago by Politico (h/t NBer AgentAmerican):
AP Continues to Perpetuate US-Kyoto 1997 Mythology
March 28th, 2009 2:49 PM
No environment-related historical myth seems stronger than the one claiming that if it weren't for the Republican Congress in the late 1990s and President George W. Bush after that, the US would have ratified the Kyoto Treaty and would be under mandatory strictures designed to combat alleged "global warming" -- which, as frequently noted here and elsewhere, has been, depending on the source…
Obama Gives Credence to a Bogus Children's Homelessness Stat Media Has
March 27th, 2009 4:07 PM
Kevin Chappell of Ebony Magazine was among the reporters preselected to ask Dear Leader Barack Obama a question at his Tuesday press conference. Here was Chappell's question: Thank you, Mr. President. A recent report found that as a result of the economic downturn, one in 50 children are now homeless in America. With shelters at full capacity, tent cities are sprouting up across the country. In…
CMI's Colleen Raezler on NRA News About Mexican Drug War
March 27th, 2009 9:59 AM
Culture and Media Institute staff writer Colleen Raezler was in studio with Cam Edwards of NRA News on March 26 to discuss media coverage of the Mexican drug wars.Responding to Paul Helmke's, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, claim that the U.S. should adopt Mexican gun laws Raezler told Edwards: "The really funny thing is that Mexico has very strict gun laws but that's not…
Classless: As 14 Die, Including 7 Young Children, AP Reporters Engage
March 24th, 2009 9:30 AM
Here's how the Associated Press's Matthew Brown chose to open his organization's initial story (HT Michelle Malkin) on the Montana plane crash where 14 people died, including seven young children, their parents, and the pilot: Because, y'know, the victims' presumed "ultrarich" socioeconomic status was sooooo important. Incredibly, Brown's report was not an isolated incident, as the AP played the…
No AP Labeling for Liberals Making Teenage Sex Easier, Without Parents
March 24th, 2009 8:32 AM
Here’s another dispatch where one-sided ideological labeling helps underline the liberal argument that they are merely for "science," while the conservatives are all about ideology. Associated Press reporter Larry Neumeister announced: "The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal…
Name That Party: 3 Dems in FBI Probe, Party Affiliation Omitted/Buried
March 24th, 2009 2:45 AM
I think it is finally getting to the point that when an Old Media story goes out over the wires without mentioning the party affiliation of troubled politicians, people naturally assume that all the criminal actions in said story are being perpetrated by Democrats. But, that assumption aside, we are still seeing reports nearly every day that omit the "Democrat" in any story involving criminal…
AP, AFP, Reuters: French Supporters of Pope 'Far-Right' or 'Right-Wing
March 23rd, 2009 12:21 PM
The three largest mainstream media wire services all agreed that supporters of Pope Benedict XVI who dared to stand up to anti-Catholic leftists in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday were extremists of the right of some sort. The Associated Press used the “right-wing” label to describe the faithful Catholics. Both Reuters and the French Agence France-Presse both used the term “far-…
How Will Media Report Chavez Calling Obama 'A Poor Ignoramus
March 22nd, 2009 10:34 PM
Barack Obama is hailed by sycophantic media members as one of the brightest men to ever be President, and was supposed to improve America's standing around the world.Yet, on Sunday, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez called Obama "a poor ignoramus" who "should read and study a little to understand reality." Given how impressed news members are with our new President, and how they regularly disparaged the…
AP Gives Aid and Comfort to Spitzer's Fiction-Based 'I Told You So' on
March 22nd, 2009 11:26 AM
Disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer clearly sees the current AIG bonus controversy as an opportunity to redeem his reputation. The Associated Press's Michael Hill provided rehabilitation assistance in his Friday report. Spitzer is best remembered for resigning as the Empire State's chief executive after being caught patronizing high-priced prostitutes over a period of several years,…