Nedra just before she "assumes the position".
Posted on 08/16/2008 7:35:55 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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 Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday was "Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice."
Pickler's purpose, of course was to ridicule the web site, properly identified as WorldNetDaily (without spaces between the words), by comparing it to tabloid publications like the National Enquirer -- even though one of those terrible tabloids has been scooping AP and other traditional media on the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story for months -- and to attempt to dent Corsi's fundamental credibility.
After all, the self-described and oh-so-dignified "Essential Global News Network" would never-never-never stoop so low as to do a story about Bigfoot.
Oh Nedra? Nedra? Over here:
Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot By JUANITA COUSINS Associated Press Writer
A hairy corpse crammed in a Georgia freezer is Bigfoot, say two men who have been tracking the legendary creature, when they aren't busy looking for leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of north Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to see the man-ape.
Still, the Georgia men say DNA will prove once and for all that the frozen creature is Sasquatch. They plan to present DNA test results and photographs during a news conference Friday in Palo Alto, Calif.
Skeptics say it's just another Bigfoot hoax.
The AP's roughly 595-word story is longer than WorldNetDaily's, which weighs in at about 530, but it also came two days later. The "Essential Global News Network," scooped on the Bigfoot story. Oh, the indignity.
Someone should ask Nedra Pickler what her favorite condiments are when eating crow (pickles, perhaps?). Associated Press Writer Christopher Wills, who also contributed to Pickler's report, should at least have to endure a side order.
To avoid further embarrassments, the AP needs to marshal its resources, and quickly. WorldNetDaily has done a Bigfoot follow-up ("Bigfoot hunters claim others of species live").
(Disclosure: In case it's noted by anyone -- I'm not particularly fond of WorldNetDaily, as noted here and here, but the matter described at those posts is unrelated to the the points made here.)
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters
This is what Nedra overlooked when she smeared World Net Daily:
"""Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot By JUANITA COUSINS Associated Press Writer"""""
“By JUANITA COUSINS Associated Press Writer”
Too funny.
Too funny. Liberals are so anxious to stick a knife in Corsi, they use the same kind of loose journalism that they accuse Corsi of. I am sure Corsi’s book has some errors, but so do every other political book, including all those who the media praises. Hypocrites, every last one of them.
Democratic presidential hopeful, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks with Associated Press reporter Nedra Pickler between campaign events in Salem, N.H., Monday, Aug. 20, 2007.
You win. I went back for the caption. LOL
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “funny papers”
“The section of a newspaper containing mostly comic strips;
— called also funnies and funny papers. Many but not all newspapers have a comics section.”
In a serious vein folks go buy the book and stop subscribing to your MSM newspaper. Since MSM has been so negligent in reporting on Obama’s history and relationships, others have stepped up to the plate. But they need money to do so.
From yesterday's Wall Street Journal (The Incredible 'Obama Nation' Publicity Machine):Greg Sargent of the left-liberal TalkingPointsMemo.com reports on the Obama campaign's campaign against Jerome Corsi, author of "Obama Nation":
In stark contrast with the Kerry campaign in 2004, the Obama campaign is mapping out an aggressive counter-attack against the new Swift-Boat-Vet style book targeting Obama--including plans to dig more deeply into the author's past statements, plans for increased surrogate action against the book, and stepped up pressure on high-level media executives to let the Obama team have air time to rebut the charges.
National Review's Byron York counters:
With the exception of pressuring of TV executives, isn't that what the New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico are already doing? It's often said that John Kerry learned a terrible lesson in 2004: that he should have addressed the Swift Boat charges head-on, and quickly. I think it's fair to say that top media types believe the same thing about themselves: that they should have knocked down the testimony of the Swift Boat veterans before it got a chance to spread. Perhaps, they believe, things might have been different if they had taken quick action. So they're jumping this time. Obama doesn't really need to do much. It's already being done.
What's astonishing, though, is that many of the news articles rebutting the book have been so amateurishly constructed as to reinforce suspicions of media partisanship. We noted the New York Times coverage Wednesday. Here are some howlers from a later dispatch by the Associated Press's Nedra Pickler:
The book is a compilation of all the innuendo and false rumors against Obama—that he was raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and secretly has a "black rage" hidden beneath the surface. In fact, Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Pickler might want to dig a bit more deeply into the Trinity United Church of Christ before declaring that it is not "a radical, black church." Pickler also adds:
Corsi writes for World Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday was "Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice."
OK, that's fun even if it's a cheap shot. But by Pickler's standards, anyone who writes for the New York Times now stands discredited.
A Washington Post piece by Eli Saslow states baselessly and in passing that "Unfit for Command," the boat book Corsi co-authored with swift-boat vet John O'Neill "was also widely disproved." An anti-Corsi Post editorial is actually more persuasive than any of these news stories, probably because editorialists are under no pressure to disguise their opinions as objective reporting.
This column has no brief for Corsi or his current book, which we have not read. What does seem clear to us, though, is that he has figured out how to leverage the media's liberal bias. All the attention he's getting can only help sell books, and the obvious bias in the critical coverage enhances Corsi's credibility, whether deservedly so or not.
Good one! She is definitely a “HELEN” in the making!
theres a ‘tool caught in the pickler’ joke in here somewhere
They always misspell Kneepad’s first name.
Thirty years from now a grand niece or nephew of Nedra is going to ask Auntie Nedra if that is really her in this photo op with Obama and she has “a bigfoot in her mouth”.
Photo ops come at a high price!!!!
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