Disgusting AP Bias--deserves a little DU response

[John_H]

Buried in another thread, new DUer emmett makes a huge find.

"emmett (2 posts) Thu Jan-22-04 03:23 AM
Response to Reply #6

Speaking of fact checkers, remember Cici Connally


Cici was the main instigator of Al Gore liar stories. Here's a new one - Nit Picklering.

<http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/yglesias-m-01-20.html>"

The meming has already starting folks--let's tell AP we're on to them early and we're not going to take it this time around.

[goodhue]

1. Pickler is evil!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Add her to the......

Media Whore Roster.

[papau]

3. great article on how the AP allows anti-Dem bias, which the others run

with.

[mouse7]

4. More Nit Pickler errors on Dean physical exam

Nit Pickler said... "But when he got his draft lottery number . . . he took his X-rays and a letter from his orthopedic surgeon to Fort Hamilton, an Army installation in Brooklyn, N.Y.""

Dean NEVER got a draft lottery number... here's a clip from the NY Times story...


"...In early 1970, more than a year before Dr. Dean's student deferment was due to lapse, he decided to see where he stood.

If approved for service, he said, he thought he might try Officer Candidate School, as a Yale friend had done. He said he had never considered the National Guard.

So, he came to his physical armed with X-rays and a letter from his orthopedist..."

http://college3.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2003/11/22/1126070.xml

Dean clearly had more than a year left on his student deferment, and was voluntarily processing to enter the service to go into Officers Candidate School when Dean took the physical he ended up failing because of his back condition.

[John_H]

5. Kick...keep giving AP hell