AP Check

AP Charged Headline of the Day

2008-07-24T15:37:00.000-07:00

GOP kills effort to release oil from US stockpile
kills= prevents
stockpile= "government strategic reserve"

Here's the not-biased version: GOP prevents Democrat effort to release oil from government reserve.

CBS Misrepresents McCain with Cut & Pasted Interview

2008-07-23T14:24:00.000-07:00

The media is giving fake interviews of Obama, so it's no surprise that CBS News thinks that they can paste in a supposed McCain blunder with the wrong question. CBS violated their own Standards and Practice by altering an interview of McCain with Katie Couric.
The segment started with Couric's third question, with part of question #3's answer and part of question #1's, spliced seamlessly. They then took the part of question #3's answer they left out and published an expose of McCain's falsely attributing Sunni cooperation to the surge.

Sci-Tech Lies About Viacom's Loss From Lawsuit Against Google

2008-07-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

In their report on Viacom's copyright-infingement lawsuit against Google, Sci-Tech Today and Top Tech News quickly brushed over the outrageous court ruling that Viacom can see the IP addresses and personal info of EVERY person that visits Youtube. To further cover up the frivilous $1 billion lawsuit which attacks every person that uses the internet, Sci-Tech presented how this effects Google financially but omitted the much greater finacial impact on Viacom.

Viacom Steps Up Pressure on Google in Lawsuit

(Sci-Tech Today)- "The lawsuit is causing a bleeding of cash -- Google's stock price dropped 12 percent on July 17, in part due to the costs of defending itself in the Viacom suit. Analysts estimate the lawsuit has cost Google tens of millions of dollars and it threatens the viability of YouTube, which is predicting it will fall short of its ad-revenue estimates."

This is false. As you can see on Google's stock charts, July 17 ended with a 52 point drop. That's less than 10%, not 12%, and their stock has since rebounded. What Sci-Tech refuses to report is that their frivilous attack on internet users is having an even greater negative impact on themselves. After the ridiculously Nazi court ruling that Viacom can see all IPs of every youtube user, Google stocks fell 1% but Viacom stocks fell 4%, that's twice as much decline.

(Finacial Post)- "Google fell US$4.90 to US$516.72 at 1:30 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Viacom's Class B shares fell 10 cents to US$28.06 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading."

And it's much worse than that for Viacom. This is an unusual drop for Google, but Viacom's stock has been plummeting for some time now because of this and many other frivilous lawsuits and bullying behavior. Take a look at their chart since March, when they announced the lawsuit. Their stock plummeted TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. That's 30%, just a tiny bit more than Google's 7% drop during the same amount of time.
Let's all say it together: C-O-V-E-R-U-P...

AP Takes Savage's Autism Remarks Out of Context

2008-07-22T08:22:00.000-07:00

It started with radical liberal Soros hack MediaMatters and spread to other radical liberals including the Associated Press, NYT, LA Times. Their minions have already pressured many sponsers to boycott Savage, which led to millions in damages and pending lawsuits. Now they are taking his comments on autism completely out of context and reporting a false defense from Savage, further taking his words out of context.

AP took Savage's original words out of context. Savage said that 99% of MISDIAGNOSED cases is "a brat who hasn't been taught to cut the act out." AP further takes Savage's defense out of context, refusing to report what he actually said. Here's Savage's entire first quote, with the context of the conversation explained:

"There is no definitive medical diagnosis for autism, none. It's all subjective," Savage, who has written a book against giving drugs to children, said yesterday.

Here's Savage's true defense:

(Michael Savage)- "Just as some drug companies have overdiagnosed "ADD" and "ADHD" to peddle dangerous speed-like drugs to children as young as 4 years of age, this cartel of doctors and drug companies is now creating a national panic by overdiagnosing "autism, for which there is no definitive medical diagnosis!

Many children are being victimized by being diagnosed with an "illness" which may not exist, in all cases. Just a few weeks ago doctors recommended dangerous anti-cholesterol drugs for children as young as 2 years of age! Without any scientific studies on the possible dangers of such drugs on children, corrupt doctors made this controversial, unscientific recommendation.

Increasingly, our children are being used as profit centers by a greedy, corrupt medical/pharmaceutical establishment. As the brother of a severely disabled person who suffered and died in a New York "snake-pit" of a "mental hospital," I know first-hand what true disability is.

To permit greedy doctors to include children in medical categories which may not be appropriate is a crime against that child and their family. Let the truly autistic be treated. Let the falsely diagnosed be free."

AP Execution Photographer Detained

2008-07-20T12:52:00.000-07:00

Recently an Associated Press photographer shot video of two helpless women being slaughtered by terrorists. He was arrested and held for two days by authorities.

Photographer Detained After Filming Taliban Execution of Two Women in Afghanistan

(Fox News)- "Naikzad said he has no ties with the Taliban, and he gave the following account of why and how he became witness to the executions.

He said the Taliban issued a press statement calling all media outlets in the province of Ghazni, which has a large Taliban presence, to cover them “carrying out the Shariah” on a few burglars in their custody. Naikzad said he believed the Taliban would be cutting off the limbs of their prisoners, according to strict Islamic law.

He said he and other journalists were reluctant to go because of security concerns, but that an unknown person who identified himself as a member of the Taliban contacted him directly on his cell phone and assured him of his safety...

He said he checked with the Kabul office of the Associated Press, for which he works as a stringer, and then set off around sunset on his motorbike to a village on the outskirts of Ghazni City, only to find that no other journalist was there.

That, he said, was when he learned it was two women — and not burglars — whom the Taliban had arrested, and that they had been charged with running a prostitution ring for coalition soldiers and local men.

Naikzad interviewed and filmed the Taliban, who said on tape that the two women “took the pure girls and women” and “indulged them in immoral acts.”...
Naikzad said he tried to persuade the Taliban not to carry out the executions. “I told one of the Taliban, ‘These are women, they are harmless. Why would you want to kill them?’ But they didn’t listen to me.” When his pleas went unheeded, he said, he asked the Taliban if he could film the execution."

AP Lies About Prisoner Swap

2008-07-17T09:02:00.000-07:00

185 Dead Terrorists returned to Lebanon, including eight Hezbollah fighters and four Palestinian guerillas, as part of the swap. Add this to the list of omitted details from the media. As I reported earlier, Reuters failed to mention the inhuman actions of the swapped terrorists or Hamas' renewed determination to kidnap innocent people.

Reuters Omits Lebanon Guerrila's Crimes, Hamas Praise

2008-07-16T11:46:00.000-07:00

Reuters does report Hezbollah's praise and Qantar's life sentence for the deaths of four Israelis, including a 4-year-old girl and her father. But they claim Israelis see the prisoner swap as "a painful necessity." I doubt that. Who would swap two dead soldiers for 5 of the worst terrorists in 30 years? AP provides essential background Reuters left out:

(AP)..."In the dead of night on April 22, 1979, Kantar and three other gunmen made their way in a rubber dinghy from Lebanon to the sleepy Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, 5 miles south of the Lebanese border. There, in a hail of gunfire and exploding grenades, they killed a policeman who stumbled upon them, then burst into the apartment of Danny Haran, herding him and his 4-year-old daughter outside at gunpoint to the beach below, where they were killed.

An Israeli court found that Kantar shot Danny Haran in front of his child, then smashed her head with his rifle butt.

Haran's wife, Smadar, who had fled into a crawl space in the family apartment with her 2-year-old daughter, accidentally smothered the child with her hand while trying to stifle her cries."

Those grisly details make a big difference. Good for AP for reporting them.
Reuters and AP both seemed to miss outrageous comments from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas:
Abbas congratulates Kuntar's family for killer's release

(Haaretz)..."Abbas welcomed the swap between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group, and in a statement congratulated the families of the "liberated prisoners," issued during a visit to Malta...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday hailed Kuntar as "a great hero" and said Israel's decision to release him and four Hezbollah fighters had undermined Israel's policy of not freeing "prisoners with blood on their hands."
Haniyeh also branded the exchange of prisoners as "a victory" for Hezbollah and armed resistance against Israel.

"Today is a great victory for the resistance movements and to Hezbollah, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "It shows that the only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers.""

CNN: Columbia Committed War Crime Rescuing Hostages

2008-07-16T08:41:00.000-07:00

CNN reports that they think they saw the red cross symbol on one of the rescuers in secret photos. This supposedly will make the terrorists trust neutral groups less, and therefore is a war crime. Does that sound right to you?
Colombian military used Red Cross emblem in rescue

(CNN)..."What seems to be part of a red cross is seen on a bib worn by a man involved in the rescue in this official image.
Photographs of the Colombian military intelligence-led team that spearheaded the rescue, shown to CNN by a confidential military source, show one man wearing a bib with the Red Cross symbol.
Misuse of the Red Cross emblem is governed by articles 37, 38 and 85 of Additional Protocol One to the Geneva Conventions, the international rules of war. The articles prohibit "feigning of protected status by the use of ... emblems" of neutral parties and say that such misuses are considered breaches of international humanitarian law that qualify as a "war crime."
Colombia signed the Geneva Conventions in 1949."

Article 38 does prohibit using the Red Cross symbol during times of war for purposes other than medical.

But did anyone consider... perhaps the guy they saw was a medic?

AP Photographs Taliban Execution, No Intervention

2008-07-14T13:02:00.000-07:00

AP's outrageous footage of Taliban's execution of women is practically snuff footage, stuff any normal American would get arrested for publishing. As Hotair notes, it also goes against AP's own moral standards.

AP Misquotes Iraq PM: He Never Called For Withdrawl

2008-07-14T11:58:00.000-07:00

From BBC:

(BBC)- "The prime minister was widely quoted as saying that in the negotiations with the Americans on a Status of Forces Agreement to regulate the US troop presence from next year, "the direction is towards either a memorandum of understanding on their evacuation, or a memorandum of understanding on a timetable for their withdrawal".

That was the version of Mr Maliki's remarks put out in writing by his office in Baghdad...

In an audio recording of his remarks, heard by the BBC, the prime minister did not use the word "withdrawal". What he actually said was: "The direction is towards either a memorandum of understanding on their evacuation, or a memorandum of understanding on programming their presence."

Wash Po. Misportrays McCain 'Nation of Whiners' Comment

2008-07-10T14:52:00.000-07:00

McCain Economic Adviser Calls US 'A Nation of Whiners'

(Wash. Post)- "Former senator Phil Gramm, a top policy adviser of Sen. John McCain's, said the nation is in a "mental recession," not an actual one, and suggested the United States has "become a nation of whiners."

The interview, published in in the Washington Times, could compound the problems of the presumptive Republican nominee..."

Gramm's comments were about the MEDIA not the American people. Here's the context of his comment:

(Wash. Times)- "Mr. Gramm said the constant drubbing of the media on the economy's problems is one reason people have lost confidence. Various surveys show that consumer confidence has fallen precipitously this year to the lowest levels in two to three decades, with most analysts attributing that to record high gasoline prices over $4 a gallon and big drops in the value of homes, which are consumers' biggest assets.

"Misery sells newspapers," Mr. Gramm said. "Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day."

And as I've shown, AP and other liberal media often portray our economy in a deceptively pessemistic way.

Attorney General Rejects AP Claim of Racial Profiling

2008-07-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

Mukasey Denies Racial Profiling in FBI's Future

(ABC)- "Attorney General Michael Mukasey today dismissed a report by the Associated Press last week that a revision of the FBI's investigative guidelines would permit racial profiling by the FBI in terrorism cases.

Over the past several months, Mukasey has reviewed the Attorney General Guidelines that set the predicates and thresholds for the FBI to open an investigation.

At a hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mukasey clearly laid out that the revised guidelines would not permit racial profiling."

AP was one of those media (I can't really blame them on this one though).

Photoshopped Iran Missle Photo

2008-07-10T08:04:00.000-07:00

This Photoshopped propaganda photo from Iran appeared on The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune, BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com, AFP, and many other major news Web sites. AP obtained the original of the photo.

BSNBC Questions if it was Terrorism

2008-07-09T08:09:00.001-07:00

6 killed in 'terrorist attack' at U.S. consulate

'Terrorist Attack' in parenthesis as if "so-called" or "alleged."

(MSNBC)..."Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said that three police officers and three attackers were killed during the shootout. "There is no doubt that this is a terrorist attack," he said."

Here's AP's spin:

Attack outside US consulate in Turkey, 6 dead

AP)..."Turkish and U.S. officials called the shooting a terrorist attack."

What the crap else would it be??!

UPDATE: Looks like MSNBC axed this article.

Desperate AP Headline of the Day

2008-07-08T09:07:00.000-07:00

Pet owners prefer McCain over Obama

AP: "America's Unhappy Birthday"

2008-07-07T08:22:00.000-07:00

Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'

(AP)- "Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive...

But then talk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists become decidedly bleak. They use words such as "terrified," "disgusted" and "scary" to describe what one calls "this mess" we Americans find ourselves in."

Unbelievable article. The Associated Press is simply livid that they are losing so much viewership.

Desperate AP Headline of the Day

2008-07-02T09:11:00.001-07:00

Obama would get more barbecue invitations than McCain

Front and center on Yahoo.

AP Distorts Truth About Iran's Nuclear Rights

2008-07-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press reported that Iran "cited its right" to nukes, as if that's part of the UN treaty.

Bush may send more troops to Afghanistan

(AP)- "Iran says its nuclear program is aimed only at generating electricity and cites its right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue uranium enrichment, a process that can produce either fuel for a nuclear reactor or material for a warhead."

The truth is, a civilian nuclear energy program is permitted under Article IV of the NPT. But Iran violated its NPT safeguards agreement by pursuing uranium enrichment in secret, and development of nuclear weapons violates article II of the NPT. The IAEA determined that Iran violated these articles.

AP Distorts Chinese Rioting Story

2008-06-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

At least their reporting it.

(AP)- "The unrest in Weng'an, a town in hilly Guizhou province, stemmed from the death of a high school student, whom Internet chat sites said was raped and murdered. Her body was pulled from a river June 22... As many as 30,000 people rioted Saturday because they were angry about a police report that said the girl drowned"

Actually, the police report said it was a suicide, and bodies with impact wounds and bruises from beatings don't result from suicides. But AP doesn't report that the body appeared badly beaten.

As for internet chat sites inspiring violence, poor Chinese farmers don't tend to post on myspace. BBC reports the family made the allegations, not those evil bloggers. We won't get the whole picture on this of course, and hundreds will be put in brainwashing camps. But cheers to AP for actually reporting some of it.

AP Lie: No Criticism of Mugabe at African Summit

2008-06-30T12:47:00.001-07:00

Updated 10 minutes ago. Sorry Associated Press, looks like you have no idea what's going on.

AP Omits Dem's Death Wish to Cheney Aide

2008-06-26T16:34:00.001-07:00

AP relay's the almost hilarious hearing Democrats held over interrogation methods of terrorist suspects. Here's how AP reported: Cheney aide denies writing interrogation memos

(AP)- "Addington gave hostile answers to the Democrats who control the committee but remained calm and relaxed, stroking his beard or resting his head on his chin, sometimes pausing for several seconds before giving an answer. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who heads the subcommittee, told reporters he thought Addington was being smug.

Nadler asked Addington whether it would be legal in some circumstances to torture a detainee's child.

"I don't agree or disagree with it, Mr. Chairman. I don't plan to address it," Addington said. "I'm not here to render legal advice to your committee. You do have attorneys of your own to give you legal advice."...

Yoo... repeatedly refused to answer questions, insisting the Justice Department had instructed him not to address a range of questions. When Nadler told him he would have to give a specific reason, Yoo struggled, whispering with his lawyers before finally saying he could not violate attorney-client privilege or reveal classified information.

The panel's Democrats grew increasingly irate, with several shouting at the witnesses...

At one point, Yoo debated the meaning of "implement" with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who asked whether the 2002 memo had been implemented."

But AP left out the best part, gee I wonder why:

Delahunt To Addington: Maybe Al Qaeda Will See You On C-SPAN

(From Youtube Video)- "Delahunt responded: "Well, I’m sure they [Al Qaeda] are watching, and I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington."

AP doesn't report this joke about terrorists coming after him. Nor do they report why the Justice Department doesn't want him to answer certain questions. AP falsely reports that he doesn't give a specific answer.

(AP)- "Addington told Delahunt he couldn't discuss specific techniques being used, or even discussed for use, by CIA agents because terrorists may be watching his appearance and would gain insight into what U.S. intelligence agents are up to."

Here's the video of the Democrat joke. Notice his "smug" and "hostile" behavior:

Reuters Omits Olympic's Doping Prevention Failures

2008-06-26T13:42:00.000-07:00

Doping controls most extensive ever - Bach

(Reuters)- "Anti-doping controls at the Beijing Games will be the most extensive ever implemented, said International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice president Thomas Bach."

A rosy picture, but hours later came this report, which Reuters and AP failed to notice.

Study shows problems with Olympic-style tests

(IHT)- "Athletes who want to cheat by injecting themselves with a performance-enhancing drug that boosts their blood cell count can do so with little risk of getting caught, a new study indicates, possibly exposing another flaw in what is regarded as the world's toughest anti-doping program.

A urine test that is supposed to detect the drug, and that will be used in the Tour de France next month and in the Olympics in August, is likely to miss it, the study says. "

AP Omits Court Opinion Behind Death Penalty Decision

2008-06-25T08:59:00.000-07:00

Court rejects death penalty for raping children

(AP)-""The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented."

Obviously, if the Court banned the death penalty for child rapists as AP reported three times before this quotation of the majority opinion, they think the death penalty is not a proportional punishment. We aren't stupid, AP. Why don't you report the actual opinion behind this kangaroo decision?

The Eighth Amendment is defined by "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” That's right, the evolving standards of decency in a progressive, maturing society. Why would AP report a brazingly socialist decision?

Movie Industry: We don't need proof to sue you!

2008-06-22T18:33:00.000-07:00

Of course no big media will report it.

(AP)-"The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement."

Looks like now they can steal money from whomsever they want, whether or not that person even listens to a record player!

Doom and Gloom AP: America is 'spinning out of control'

2008-06-22T18:07:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when AP needs ratings: Everything seemingly is spinning out of control

(AP)-"Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism...

The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault... Even so, a battered public seems discouraged by the onslaught of dispiriting things. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll says a barrel-scraping 17 percent of people surveyed believe the country is moving in the right direction."

"The country is moving in the wrong direction" equals "We have lots of problems and are out of control?" Let's go down the list.

1. Levees are bursting. True but this isn't exactly the hot topic of conversation down at the cafe.

2. Polar bears are adrift. Not true. So far, I've seen one image of a polar bear adrift on an ice chunk. One. Someone, anyone show me this happening.

3. Gas prices. Very true, this is out of control and destroying our otherwise pleasant economy.

4. Home values. Not hurting me, or anyone I know.

5. Air fare, tuition, health care. I'm doing fine on each. I'll be paying tuition and health insurance with no problem.

6. Wars in Iraq. They're getting better. Deaths are way down, things are looking up. Except that Iraq is selling its oil to countries besides us.

Doom and Gloom AP is probably feeling blue because newspaper ad revenue has plunged, sparking fear in the big media. Bad news for them, good news for me and you.