AP running with skewed poll results
August 15th, 2005 7:37 AM
(As read on-air today by Rush Limbaugh. Click here to listen to introduction)The main political headline from the AP today is the results of an AP-Ipsos poll taken a week ago. Bush Approval a Low for Recent 2-Termers reports that President Bush's job approval is down to 42% with 55% disapproving. That certainly sounds disturbing, or at least it would if he were running for anything again. But…
AP Ignores Lobbyist's Dem Connections
August 11th, 2005 1:30 PM
The Associated Press is today repeating a mistake that CBS made in May. The AP story which just went out, Fraud Indictment Expected for Abramoff, focuses several times on GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Federal prosecutors are seeking bank fraud charges against lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key figure in investigations involving House Majority…
AP discovers Cindy Sheehan - sort of
August 10th, 2005 10:36 PM
Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville, CA woman whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, has been a major media phenomenon for the past several days since she showed up outside the President's ranch in Texas. But looking at the latest release from the AP, Grieving Mother's War Protest Draws Notice, you'd think they were breaking news.
The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace…
'Fact Stripping' by the Associated Press
July 27th, 2005 9:51 PM
The Associated Press ran a story on 27 July, 2005, which demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of Judge Roberts position on legislation by Congress to reduce the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The title of that article is "Under Reagan, Roberts Opposed Efforts to Strip Supreme Court Jurisdiction."At the heart of the story is this paragraph:"The issue of so-called court-stripping legislation…
