Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Associated Press: Despicable Beyond Belief

"Attending the news conference with Spitzer were his close advisers and lawyers, including Ted Wells, a prominent attorney who recently represented I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the inquiry over the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame."

Guess where the above paragraph appears?  It appears in the current Associated Press story on the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York.  The Associated Press just keeps getting worse--still rehashing the Valerie Pleame matter (which was an obsession for the AP for more than 4 years). 

Does anyone have any doubt about how despicable the Associated Press is, and how much every AP story is infected with agenda?   If so, the above paragraph should remove the doubt (as should the almost daily examples I have exposed in this blog over the past 3 years).  Inf fact, my blog, in effect, constitutes a three year INDICTMENT of the journalistic crimes of the Associated Press (although that is not, by any means, the only subject of the blog).

The above quoted paragraph, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with this story.  It is not "news".  It is all about the AP agenda.

P.S.  It is not a recommendation for an attorney to be involved in the defense of Scooter Libby.  He was convicted, in a very flimsy case.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is truely unbelievable.  You are so right, when I read this first paragraph, it makes it abudantly clear that the Associated Press has an agenda.  I have heard this before but have never really picked up on it myself until I read this article and saw such an obvious bias.  My goodness, my kindergarten son could pick up on this, Hell, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Ronnie Milsap can see this.  (I had to think long and hard to come up with Ronnie Milsap as the token "white" guy to ensure Al Sharpton doesn't come chasing me down to "Imus" me for being racist and mentioning two blind "brothers" yet no blind white guys)  Anyway, back to The Associated Garbage, I mean Press, look at this paragraph, they are trying to tell you Spitzer had his lawyers present with him as he held a news conference.  That took the first 12 words of the paragraph, yet then they go on ANOTHER 46 words in the paragraph on a tyrad bashing the Bush Administration through Vice President Cheney and his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby.  The purpose of the paragraph is to tell you about Spitzer yet they spent almost four times as many words bashing the Bush Administration, which is totally unrelated to Spitzer and this article, truely amazing.