The Associated Press demonstrates professional ethics in terror bomb case.
…No, actually, the AP demonstrated professional ethics. Twice. The Associated Press reports today that it learned last week of a thwarted Al Qaeda-affiliated plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airplane, but...
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…that I spurn this as being too easy. The Associated Press is trying to get its Washington, DC bureau designated a “prostitution free zone.” This is not a criticism of @streiffredstate. What is and is...
View ArticleSo, the Department of Justice secretly subpoenaed the Associated Press.
I cannot possibly see how this could end badly for the Obama administration. I somehow suspect that the AP isn’t going to get all shirty for once about this quote: Rules published by the Justice...
View ArticleJon Stewart, meet IRS-derived meltdown. Meltdown, Jon Stewart.
This particular event surpasses even Stewart’s hysterical reaction to Scott Brown winning the MA-SEN special election. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision...
View ArticleEric Holder may have an *exquisitely* painful day today over at House Judiciary.
I know, I know: you are wounded unto death about such a thing occurring. Wounded unto death. Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, where Republicans...
View ArticleQotD, The Huffington Post (!) Takes Media Matters To The Woodshed edition.
This is how you tell Lefty groups that have made it to the media from Lefty groups who have not: see which ones are upset that the Department of Justice secretly subpoenaed two months’ worth of...
View ArticleEugene Robinson… points out troublesome behavior from Obama towards the press.
You know, Eugene Robinson, I can’t help but notice that… you are upset at the current administration’s policies on leaks. The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone...
View ArticleThe New York Times sub rosa declares for the Obama administration in DoJ/AP...
Or am I supposed to pretend that the fig lead of an ‘Op-Ed’ applies in this situation? As former Justice Department officials who served in the three administrations preceding President Obama’s, we are...
View ArticleWhy @BarackObama will cheerfully ignore the AP’s photo complaints.
This would be the complaint in question: Manifestly undemocratic [...] is the way Mr. Obama’s administration — in hypocritical defiance of the principles of openness and transparency he campaigned on —...
View ArticleThe latest AP/GfK poll *should* alarm Democrats.
Some rather good news via RCP, in the form of the latest AP/GfK poll. Short version: polling adults*, there’s a +1 GOP advantage on who poll respondents want to run Congress (37/36); the same poll had...
View ArticleTweet of the Day, …Good Heavens. The AP Published THAT Picture Of Hillary?...
Does the AP want Hillary Clinton to lose? http://t.co/ruF5kMhwcP pic.twitter.com/376PiTcQVh — Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) July 17, 2015 I mean, yes, she’s a horrible candidate and everything – but it’s not...
View ArticleAP US History back to admitting that America is, in fact, exceptional.
Judging from the sheer amount of whining going on later in this Newsweek article, this decision by The College Board (the company that does the AP tests) sounds like a reasonably big deal: “The company...
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Rooting for Injuries Watch: The AP vs. that annoying trace artist guy.
You know: Shepard Fairey, who took time out from cosplaying a graphic artist for Minitruth and plagiarizing everything that moved to trace out the iconic image of our new President. Oh, well, it’s...
View ArticleAP: Pentagon Report declares Gitmo ‘humane’.
(Via Brother Pejman of RedState) As it stands, there’s a problem with this report, and it’s not what you think: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for...
View ArticleAP goes after AP afilliate for using AP’s YouTube channel.
No, really. Despite the fact that putting up your own material on YouTube in embeddable form means that you’re officially OK with letting people embed it. Despite the fact that Google, which owns...
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Tax revenues hit below the waterline this year.
(Via Gateway Pundit) Get used to this graphic, because you’re going to be seeing it a lot: These numbers, of course, reflect percentage changes in tax revenues, not the amount collected. For that...
View ArticleI give it a 8 for style, 6 for execution.
I take two points off the style for the profanity: a little is fine, but after the fourth bleeped-out word you’re being derivative. As for execution… the hoe was a nice touch, but if you hit a camera...
View ArticleShepard Fairey admits to stealing AP photo.
It makes you wonder what the AP has, to make this admission by HOPE-and-paste ripoff artist Shepard Fairey look like the preferable option: In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation,...
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46/29/4.
FORTY-SIX, TWENTY-NINE, FOUR. If you’re wondering what that is, it’s the D/R/I breakdown of the AP poll of adults that ‘shows’ the President at a 60% approval level. Hot Air doesn’t say, but I will:...
View ArticleHill poll: American electorate apparently not addicted to soaking rich.
Or, rather, they don’t actually realize that the soaking is already happening. The most immediate thing to take away from this Hill poll is what the article on the subject leads with: which is, that...
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