Uncritical AP Helped Push Cheney Spin On Iraq Insurgency, "Last Throes"

[JABBS]

The conservative spin after Vice President Dick Cheney's June 19 comments at the National Press Club was that he was being honest with the American people, telling us that he wrongly underestimated the strength of the Iraqi insurgency.

But take a closer look at what Cheney said, and you see that this one obvious nod to reality was part of a larger set of comments that can only be described as spin, spin and more spin.

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The Associated Press' coverage, widely carried in newspapers nationwide, also used the Cheney spin without fact-checking it.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Getting any plain truth out of cheney is as impossible as getting

some country club miser to give you $500 out of his wallet. Shit, cheney never even admitted that any of the bullshit stories from "curveball" were bogus. And as for the press, don't ever count on them to call
cheney out on any of the lies, they are shit scared of being audited or worse as a result.

[JABBS]

2. agreed

in this case, i think the AP reporter was just being lazy. and of course, god forbid any copy editor takes three minutes to do a simple archive search.

The Washington Post countered some of Cheney's spin in its June 20 edition, on page 13. So maybe 10,000 people read that. Maybe 2 million people read the AP version. Oy.