Posted on 08/23/2008 9:03:02 PM PDT by kristinn
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 are published in thousands of newspapers nationwide) wrote a story about Barack Obama's vice presidential pick that sounded more like right-wing FOX than an unbiased news organization. Under the headline "Biden pick shows lack of confidence," the AP wrote: 'The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness--inexperience in office and on foreign policy...He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate--the ultimate insider...The Biden selection is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative...'
"This isn't an isolated incident for the AP reporter who wrote this story, Ron Fournier--who was recently appointed as the AP's Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief. Media watchdog group Media Matters wrote a report showing that Fournier's presidential coverage has consistently smeared Democrats and favored John McCain....
"A congressional investigation recently uncovered an email Fournier sent to Karl Rove in 2004, telling him to 'Keep up the fight.' Plus, it was recently revealed that Fournier talked to top McCain campaign operatives in 2007 about being a senior McCain political adviser! Given all this, Fournier has an obligation to the public to show that he's not a partisan McCain supporter.
"But during the 2008 primary, Fournier wrote what amounted to a bunch of smear jobs on Barack Obama and the Clintons....Meanwhile, Media Matters could only find one negative piece Fournier wrote about Republicans during the entire primary--and that was trashing Mitt Romney for beating John McCain in Michigan! (Fournier called McCain's loss 'a defeat for authenticity in politics' and glowingly called McCain 'the man who spoke hard truths.' Seriously! That's unbiased journalism?)"
Click the source link for the 'offending' AP article.
It is hysterical that MoveOn says Fournier has a pro McCain bias. This is like Media Matters which goes ape if any media person says something positive about McCain or negative about Obama. They look stupid to the average observer and appeal only to their base.
"He is now Jabba the Soros' skin-puppet desperately trying to Slap All Who Insult The Twelfth Imam."
Amen!!
You're posts are so wonderful!
“When rats attack their own! Film at eleven!”
I saw that article title but never did read it.
Good job, Ron. Rip each other to shreds, Please.
MoveOn like all Fascist orgs., no one can stray off the party line.
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It is revealing to compare Obama’s communist mentality to that of MoveOn.org. Fascists all. You will not do this, you will not do that....I get images of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler...and Hugo Chavez....
The radical left is just that.
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