Posted on 07/12/2008 7:04:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Classless AP Takes Cheap Shots at Just-Passed Snow Photo of Tom Blumer. By Tom Blumer (Bio | Archive) July 12, 2008 - 09:03 ET
At long last, has the Associated Press lost all sense of decency?
The wire service's story (saved here for future reference in case the wire service is embarrassed into revising it; you might consider saving it too as Exhibit A on how far over the cliff the dinosaur media has driven itself) by Douglass K. Daniel, with Jennifer Loven contributing to the story (I might have known), gets in at least three cheap, fundamentally untrue, and totally uncalled-for shots at Tony Snow, who died earlier this morning.
I won't sully NB's front page with any of them. They follow the jump:
With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.
..... During daily briefings, he challenged reporters, scolded them and questioned their motives as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing.
Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.
Godspeed Tony. I'm sure God will take an objective view of your life, and you'll waltz right in to be with Him for eternity.
Otherwise, words fail. How dare they?
I'll let commenters supply them.
The White House's statement is here at the Corner.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The AP goes to hell.
AP=NCAA*
(*No Class At All)
Mr. Snow ruffled some lefty feathers. Some of them still feel the need to take shots at him even though he’s no longer with us. Shame on them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
AP = Always Pimping
TOTALLY CLASSLESS!
"I was summoned to the office of National Security adviser Sandy Berger,
who chewed me out for not having a national security adviser (on the West Wing).
So I opened the next season with Anna Deavere Smith as the national security adviser" - Aaron Sorkin
I’m surprised it took the MSM this long to unleash the bile. I’m sure the swamplands of DU & Kos will be even more “classy”. Just think, they’re just getting started.
RIP Snowman! You were loved and respected.
No more than should be expected from Al Pravda.
“I’m sure the swamplands of DU & Kos will be even more “classy”.”
I was thinking the same thing. I’m sure the hateful scum at the DU are gearing up their “good riddance” posts in response to Tony Snow’s death.
Bias? No, not at all. After all everyone hates the Bush administration and everyone connected to it, so we reporters have a duty to the American people!
Tony Snow was one of the good ones, and we all will miss him. Tony understood something about a news story that many today do not. He worked to get it RIGHT, and never, never did he make up a story out of his imagination. We listen to the MSM everyday with their manufactured stories. Rest in Peace, Tony.....you will be missed.
Tony Snow was one of the good ones, and we all will miss him. Tony understood something about a news story that many today do not. He worked to get it RIGHT, and never, never did he make up a story out of his imagination. We listen to the MSM everyday with their manufactured stories. Rest in Peace, Tony.....you will be missed.
Our memery is still fresh of the coverage given to Tim Russert’s passing. We will be watching.
AP really is the problem at the base of the media bias. How can we lessen their influence?
Just wait and see what they have to say if one of their reporters (propagandist) get’s killed covering the war...I’m sure they will think it deserves a national day of mourning.
The meta-narrative of the left media makes no allowance for respect, not even for the dead.
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