Friday, July 4, 2008

"Influential" Republicans: Media Version

I have cited again and again (see blog archives) the habit of the despicable AP of calling a person an "influential Republican" ONLY when such a person OPPOSES what most Republicans believe or want:  Here is tonight's example:

"An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices."
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To the truly despicable, uninfluential Associated Press (and AOL), WHO is an "inflential Republican senator"?  Obviously, the qualification is NOT that you actually be "influential".  John Warner is a LAME DUCK--an aged senator who has already annunced his retirmement.

Nope.  The test is NOT whether a senator is actually "influential", or representative of Republicans.  The test, for the despicable AP and AOL, is basically the opposite:  Is the senator saying something that is likely to be OPPOSED by Republicans (who believe in freedom and LESS Feral power as a rule)--a bonus (for the AP) being if the senator is proposing an INCREASE in Federal power and control over our lives.

It is a given that you can't be "influential" unless you are advancing the AGENDA of the despicable AP

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Notice that the despicable Associated Press NEVER calls Kay Bailey Hutchinson (from Texas, where I live, and who KNOWS oil and energy) "influential" when she talks about the INSANTIY of failing to develop oil resources in ANWR, offshore, in oil shale, and other domestic resources, not to mention nuclear power.

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