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Associated Press' memo to staff 09-Oct-08 As the current financial crisis continues, some staff may have concerns about how AP will weather the downturn. Here are answers for some of the questions you may have. What is the financial health of AP? AP is on solid financial footing, thanks to modest revenue growth and responsible expense management over the past few years, which have resulted in a positive cash flow. That in turn has allowed us to fund important investments in technology and in our infrastructure, including a new office in Washington and a critical renovation in London. We have...

Hi Charlie, As you might have heard, I am covering the McCain/Palin appearance today. At the media breakfast at the Pfister Hotel about an hour ago, you would simply not believe the vicious, nasty conversation I just overheard between several "elite" media types from the McClatchey news service, AP, and a couple of other sources I didn't quite catch. Over the course of just a few minutes, I heard that "Sean Hannity gives Dick Cheney the best head of his life," and that he and Lou Dobbs are "mean-spirited sycophants," and that McCain himself is "angry" and "crusty. One even...

It's October and time to start throwing the kitchen sink. Throwing the kitchen sink is fun because it makes a lot of noise when it shatters against an opponent's head, particularly when the sink is full of dirty dishes. The dirty dishes this year are mostly from the Obama's Good Time Diner on Chicago's always interesting South Side. However, you're not supposed to criticize Sen. Barack Obama, because only racists do that. Good citizenship requires keeping some dirty dishes segregated. But somebody forgot to tell Gov. Sarah Palin, the Wasilla housewife who knows about sinks and stones and stacks of...

The AP writes: In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Politico Web site: "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together." But while Ayers and Obama are acquainted, the charge that they "pal around" is a stretch of any reading of the public record.Are they friendly? Certainly. Do they pal around? Certainly not.

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Radical Assumptions The Associated Press posted an analysis piece Sunday about Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's connections with 1960s radical William Ayers. Its conclusion? The AP called Palin's comments "unsubstantiated" and wrote they "carried a racially-tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret." But the AP failed to substantiate its own claim and explain how Obama's relationship with Ayers — who is white — carries any racial subtext. What Palin did say is "our opponent... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that...

Over the weekend Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists--a reference to his longstanding friendship and professional association with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, husband-and-wife Chicago college professors who are unrepentant about their activities in the Weather Underground gang. According to an "analysis" by Douglass Daniel of the Associated Press, "[Palin's] attack was unsubstantiated." Palin said she got her information from the New York Times, and we suppose it says something that this isn't good enough for the AP. Odder still is Daniel's claim that Palin's statement "carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may...

Just a little rewrite of DouglASS K. Daniel's piece from earlier today.

<p>It's a contender, anyway: the Associated Press claims that Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers was racist!</p> <p>By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret. ...</p>

The Associated Press article on Sarah Palin’s comments about William Ayers is a Category 7 jaw-dropper. Apparently, now even criticizing Obama’s associations with white violent radicals is racist: Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge. This really is the election in which the mainstream media have thrown all their claims to impartiality right into the sewer. It’s sickening to see.

Douglass K. Daniel Of The Associated Press has published an attack on Governor Sarah Palin (Analysis: Palin's Words Carry Racial Tinge (Race Card Alert), Analysis: Palin's words may backfire on McCain (MSM gallop to the rescue of Obama from evil Palin)) over her accurate description of Obama's pal Bill Ayers. It turns out that Douglass K. Daniel is pretty busy in this campaign season:Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act September 18, 2008 This is a puff piece which reads like an Obama campaign press release, and is partially designed to give Biden cover over his nutty statement.Biden says...

For those who have been following mainstream media reporting on the scandalous relationship between Democratic presidential nominee Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, tonight marks a milestone in the reporting by the Associated Press.The AP, in an updated article about Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calling out Obama and Ayers, finally reported that Weather Underground bombings killed people.For months since the story first broke in the Politico, the AP has made a point of saying that the Weather Underground bombings were 'non-fatal.' The AP repeats that in tonight's story, in reference to...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's three Democratic congressman have voted against a $700 billion government bailout bill for the battered financial industry.

RACE AS A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION My grandfather often repeated the old saw that people should never discuss religion or politics since those topics often resulted in endless conflict with never a chance of resolution. That advice goes back a good while since I’m a gramps myself now. I’ve never abided by it anyway since both religion and politics are sources of excellent discussion. The advice is passe’ today but if politics and religion were still off-limits in 2008, another more volatile subject would have to be added to the injunction, namely, race. To mention a person’s race either directly...

WASILLA, Alaska - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard. She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free "awesome facial" she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The...

On an earlier thread (Laura Bush: Palin lacks foreign policy experience (AP spin and not even close to accurate)), Freeper nuvista revealed that the Associated Press took a Laura Bush/CNN interview and deliberately distorted it to make a hitpiece they could spread all over the Net. Unfortunately, YouTube has a copy of the very same interview, proving beyond a doubt that the interview was distorted to make Laura Bush "say" something she didn't say: YouTube: Laura Bush: "Thrilled" About Sarah Palin Upon searching for the anonymous AP author of the hitpiece, I discovered that Dan Eggen of The Washington Post...

Freeper nuvista made an excellent catch of an AP poop-and-scoot on Laura Bush and Sarah Palin:Laura Bush: Palin lacks foreign policy experience (AP spin and not even close to accurate) Freeper nuvista:I saw the interview on CNN. The AP story is - quel surprise! - totally distorted. The infobabe first reminded Laura that she had been in favor of Condi Rice being either the VP or even the Presidential nominee. Laura affirmed that this had been her desire. Then, infobabe brought up Sarah Palin’s name and noted, (paraphrasing) “well, she doesn’t have as much foreign policy experience”. Laura replied (again...

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. "This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement. The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the...

Democrat media foot soldier Terence Hunt shows his amazing ability to write and carry water for the Democrat Party at the same time!:http://news.google.com/news?nolr=1&hl=en&q=%22Obama+blames+Wall+St.+crisis+on+Republican+policy%22&btnG=Searchhttp://news.google.com/news?hl=en&nolr=1&q=%22Obama+says+McCain+is+running+dishonest+campaign%22&btnG=Search FR: Obama says McCain is running dishonest campaign

Link:Hitpiece on Palin Part 2. Palin=Goldwater 1964

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department pledged Monday to send election monitors around the country to help ensure access to the polls in November, even while acknowledging its limited power to enforce election laws. Civil rights groups fear that an unprecedented minority voter turnout due to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama might be countered by efforts to intimidate or otherwise block people who seek to cast their ballots. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and other Justice officials met with about 42 representatives from voter access watchdogs, hoping to assure them that having a smooth Nov. 4 election is a priority. "The Justice...

Nobody should be surprised that the day after Sarah Palin knocked the ball out of the park with her acceptance speech; the Associated Press ran an article claiming she was using a corked bat. This is because the mainstream media, while completely in the tank for Obama, isn’t so blinded by the Messiah’s divine light that they can’t see a huge threat when it appears. In the case of Mz. Palin, her appearance on the political scene has given the liberal press the same sense of dread that the people of Alderaan must have felt when a moon sized space...

Associated Press religion writers Eric Gorski and Rachel Zoll are accusing GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of concealing her Pentecostal religious roots by identifying herself “simply as Christian” in her biography on the website of the National Governors’ Association. In their Sept. 4 article headlined “Pentecostalism obscured in Palin biography,” Gorski and Zoll rely on Duke Divinity School’s Grant Wacker to suggest a motive for Palin’s alleged duplicity.  Wacker says, “the public still perceives [Pentecostals] as sectarian and uncompromising, and those traits will not help Palin’s image.”“Sarah Palin often identifies herself simply as Christian,” Gorski and Zoll begin. ...

Apparently Ted Anthony of the Associated Press thinks it is somehow "contradictory" of the GOP to show VP candidate Governor Sarah Palin's kids at the GOP convention on TV. He seems to imagine that, since the GOP objected to the media attempting to use the kids against Governor Palin, that the GOP shouldn't be allowed to have the kids attend the convention to see their Mother accept her nomination. Anthony's "analysis" hit the nets on September 3, the day after Palin's wonderful acceptance speech on night 3 of the proceedings. Naturally, the AP trolls our left leaning universities to find...

A.P.: 6 IN 10 SAY PALIN IS UNQUALIFIED The Associated Press has released the results of an A.P. poll showing only 4 in 10 adults believe Sarah Palin is qualified for the presidency: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35240. According to that same telephone poll of 505 people, only 4 in 10 felt “more favorably about her” because of her decision to give birth to Trig, a baby with Down Syndrome. The reader is obviously entitled to draw his or her conclusions based on those numbers. My conclusions are, one, that the A.P. poll is as flawed and biased as the A.P. is flawed and...

Sara Kugler (Associated Press writer) political campaign contributions link... http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=10014&last=Kugler&first=Sara From Wikipedia: America Coming Together (ACT) was a liberal, political action, 527 group dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities. ACT did not specifically endorse any political party, but mostly worked on behalf of Democratic candidates. It was the largest 527 group in 2004 and was planning to be involved in future races. The group was primarily funded by Peter Lewis, GEORGE SOROS, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Some examples: PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere." THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support...

Check out the link. You might think the photo was shot by the National Enquirer or The Star or some other grocery store tabloid. But wait, it is an AP photo. And the caption in virtually every photo after that one calls Bristol Palin, "the pregnant daughter........." We havent seen a lynching like this since Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court.

On the 17th of June, our esteemed founder, JimRob, made the following statement: Boycott AP! We don't need their steenking liberal propaganda anyway. This statement was made in response to a new "fair use" statement made for bloggers that stated that the AP's version of 'fair use' was a five word extract and that the AP reserved editorial control over any blog entry that dared even use those five fair words. Due to the ubiquitousness of the AP, it was not possible to simply add "ap.org" to the list of exerpt only sites; it depended largely upon the diligence of...

Oh, Behold the "gentle critics" of the left... Obama deals gently with Palin on equal pay issue http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_obama_palin Critics: Palin used 'Bridge... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_bridge_to_nowhere Can anyone at the MSM Yahoo-AP crowd explain to me how come anti-right-leftists are plain "critics" [were it reversed they would call the critics specifically in an identity: "right wingers" or Republicans... or Mccain supporters) and why they go so "gently" with Obama that is never gentle?

AP/Yahoo think they're funny.This is a photo spread about Anthropology and Archaeology, the 3rd picture in is a hit on McCain.   

Recommend to a friend Print Submit a Comment Strib tells AP: we're canceling It’s hard to imagine: the Star Tribune without the Associated Press. But that’s what could happen in 2010; the region’s biggest news source recently sent the nation’s most prominent wire service the required two years' cancellation notice, an AP spokesman confirms. If a split comes to pass, Strib readers will notice changes from the biggest international headlines to the smallest sports agate type. Just this morning, I counted at least 18 AP stories or photos in the Strib’s news sections; a wire-service credit was attached nearly all...

There seem to be a good number of them posted lately. Has the ban been lifted (or at least modified?) And yes, I am logged on. (Also logged in, over, under, around, through, and any other prepositions you smart alecky Freepers want to throw in there.) A straight answer from a definitive source would be nice.

The popular, if controvesial, liberal activist group MoveOn.org today targeted an email campaign at Associated Press executives and the AP Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier after what it termed yet another Fournier attack on Barack Obama. Fournier's article on Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate gained wide linkage at the Drudge Report, Hot Air and numerous other conservative sites, while it was panned on liberal blogs such as DailyKos and Talking Points Memo. The MoveOn rallying cry to its members included the following. The full Fournier article follows after that. "Today, the Associated Press (whose articles...

At least four more daily papers are planning to drop the Associated Press in the wake of new rates being announced, including The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash, which is trying to cut ties without the required two-year notice. "Our lawyers think that we don’t have to wait two years," said Steve Smith, Spokesman-Review editor. "By the end of this week, we will have nailed down all of the things we have to do to replace AP." AP contract rules require a two-year notice before service can be dropped. Smith said his paper would like to cut ties completely within 30...

The Post Register of Idaho Falls, Idaho -- one of the newspapers that initially defended the Associated Press’ new controversial rate structure -- has given notice that it will drop the news service in two years in protest of the arrangement. In a letter sent Friday to AP President Tom Curley, Post Register Publisher Roger Plothow informed the news cooperative of the decision, stating, “Given the AP’s historical inflexibility (particularly when it comes to small, independent newspapers), I fear the implications of what I’m about to write, but I can’t think of another option. I wish to give notice of...

The back-and-forth over Jerome Corsi's book, "The Obama Nation," has been heated, largely unfair to the author, and predictably attacked by alleged "objective" journalists and Democratic mouthpieces (but I repeat myself), as noted by several NewsBusters posters, including Tim Graham (here, here, and here), Geoff Dickens, Mark Finkelstein, and Clay Waters. But that doesn't mean there haven't been moments of humor. A delicious one comes at the expense of the Associated Press's Nedra Pickler. In her Thursday hit piece on Corsi's book, here is how Pickler described the online publication where Corsi writes a periodic column: Corsi writes for World...

Tatan Syuflana, of the Associated Press, took this photograph, showing that "Obama" attended school in Indonesia, as Barry Soetoro, with religion listed as "Islam": But "Obama" told the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois that he had never had another name:

Do you know who the Associated Press thinks is secretly hoping for a Barack Obama win? Why, it's "racist groups," dontcha know? See, as the AP reports it, a black man as president couldn't be a more perfect example of how the dark race is takin' over and ruining the white man's world, right? At least, that is according to the AP's favorite go-to racist guy, David Duke, anyway. And what better way for the AP to prove that only racists oppose Obama, eh?AP decided to dredge up the aforementioned David Duke to let the country know that "the racists"...

AP's approach: 'Better to get it right even if we couldn't get it first' WASHINGTON - Reporters don't like being beaten on a major political story, especially by a supermarket tabloid. And being beaten up over not reporting one is even less appealing. But a sexual affair can have just two people who know the truth. Without witnesses, documents, photographs or some form of irrefutable evidence pointing to the truth, news organizations will not endanger their own integrity. That made it difficult to prove — and to print — the rumors that John Edwards had cheated on his seriously ill...

The Associated Press announced Thursday that it would be expanding its entertainment coverage with a multi-million dollar investment in a celebrity news service. The new service, called "Celebrity Extra," will focus on A-list celebrities. A video version of the service launched Wednesday for global broadcast and video markets. A photo version will launch next month. "Entertainment is a significant growth area -– particularly for visual images of the top stars," said AP Directior of Entertainment Dan Becker in a statement. "We bring a unique combination of video, photos and text to the market, providing coverage with a global reach." AP...

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MIAMI - A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court yesterday on charges he threatened to assassinate Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held without bail yesterday by a federal magist

Andy Martin calls on Senator Barack Obama to make full disclosure of Obama's links to alleged Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Were the seeds of Obama's "rage" and racial hatred planted by Davis? ANDY MARTIN DEMANDS THAT OBAMA MAKE FULL DISCLOSURE OF CONNECTION TO ALLEGED COMMUNIST ANDY MARTIN Executive Editor ContrarianCommentary.com 'Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct' FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS ANNOUNCEMENT OF WASHINGTON, DC CONFERENCE August 8th OBAMA AUTHOR ANDY MARTIN HOLDS A WASHINGTON, DC NEWS CONFERENCE TO DEMAND THAT OBAMA MAKE "FULL DISCLOSURE" OF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH PUTATIVE CHICAGO/HAWAII COMMUNIST FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS MARTIN EXPRESSES CONCERN THAT...

Well, the Associated Press is certainly living up to its new rules of being opinion editorialists instead of reporters if the following headline is any indication: "Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney." This was unleashed on the world by the AP on August 5. So, I ask you, does "unpopular Cheney" sound more like opinion than it does simple news reporting? In fact, the Cheney comment was not even the crux of Obama's comments, but a throw away line meant to give red meat to the far left. Obama did not center his energy discussion on Cheney. Yet here...

All the news that's fit to make up, YET AGAIN.... Since AP is LINK ONLY, or whatever, I'll do this as a PERSONAL Item. In this article, released just 5 hours ago, Titled, "Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll" "A new poll finds Barack Obama is leading John McCain nationally by 6 percentage points thanks to big leads he is enjoying among women, minorities and younger voters. The Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that Obama is leading his Republican rival 47 percent to 41 percent. McCain has a 10-point lead among whites and is tied with the Democrat among men,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday. Obama is ahead of his Republican rival 47 percent to 41 percent, The Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed. The survey was taken after the Democratic senator from Illinois had returned from a trip to Middle Eastern and European capitals, and during a week that saw the two camps clash over which had brought race into a campaign in which Obama is striving to become the first African-American...

..the closest AP's Douglas Birch came to mentioning the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Christian faith was by remarking how the bearded author and Soviet dissident looked like a religious icon: In a 1978 speech at Harvard ** Solzhenitsyn denounced the Western view that liberal democracy was fated to triumph in non-Western civilizations, which he called "worlds" unto themselves. ..in that speech-"A World Split Apart"-Baptist theologian Albert Mohler argues, that Solzhenitsyn famously diagnosed secularism as a disease corrupting the West and, what's more, he did so thoroughly anchored in his Orthodox Christian faith (emphasis mine): *** Solzhenitsyn railed against the secularism and...

Several newspapers and The Associated Press have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operator of a collection of Web sites, the news organizations announced Friday. The Police News Publishing Co., Breck Porter and six affiliated Web sites had been accused of accessing the news content of the organizations without their authorization and posting it on the Web sites, where advertising appears. The content was then archived; the archiving, publication, distribution and display of the content all violated the news organizations' copyright, according to the suit. Porter, of Galveston, was the editor of the various Web sites. In addition to...

<p>JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, facing corruption allegations and plummeting approval ratings, announced Wednesday he will resign in September. The move threw his country into political turmoil and raised doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts.</p> <p>Appearing angry and reading from a prepared text, Olmert made the brief statement at his official Jerusalem residence where he harshly criticized the corruption investigations against him. He said he was choosing the public good over his personal justice.</p>

WASHINGTON - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends. [snip] "Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests there is no battlefield solution to terrorism," said Seth Jones, the lead author of the study and a Rand political scientist.