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Huffington Post, AP mislead about Sarah Palin book; opponents not effective (pipeline deal) - 11/18/2009

The Huffington Post and the Associated Press are reviving a smear both perpetrated against Sarah Palin about a year ago. At the same time, most of Palin's defenders aren't taking effective steps to counter-act what HuffPost and the AP are doing. In October of last year, AP writers Garance Burke and Justin Pritchard wrote about one of Palin's resume points, a pipeline deal. As contem...

NAS-revised Census Bureau stats: almost 1 in 6 U.S. residents in poverty (+Hope Yen lies) - 10/20/2009

... in this case, Hope Yen of the Associated Press is lying too (link). What she calls "Americans" are actually U.S. residents; not all are U.S. citizens:

Boy Scouts go after Hispanic market with Spanish-language Handbook - 10/09/2009

Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press offers this (bolding added): The Boy Scouts are making their debut "en espanol," with an advertising campaign launched Thursday and a soon-to-come Spanish-language Scout Handbook intended to draw Latinos to the ranks of the nearly century-old organization. The Spanish-language campaign, called "Valores para toda la vida," translated as &...

Census worker found hanged in Kentucky; see who's politicizing it - 9/24/2009

On September 12, part-time Census Bureau worker Bill Sparkman was found hanged in rural Kentucky with the word "Fed" "scrawled" (per the AP) on his chest. The story was only released yesterday and the details aren't known, but that hasn't stopped several (listed below) from trying to blame right-wing media figures and politicians (such as Glenn Beck and Rep. Michelle ...

Chuck Todd misleads about Obamacare (illegal alien coverage, abortions, Calvin Woodward) - 8/19/2009

... covered under his plan. 2. Even the Associated Press admitted on August 6 that "Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions" (llink). 3. The other two points are basically a matter of opinion and forecasting. Since a national healthcare scheme wouldn't have unlimited resources, some form of rationing would have to...

Jaymes Song of AP lies about what Hawaii's DOH Director actually said - 8/05/2009

Jaymes Song of the Associated Press decided to re-write history in the July 27 article "Hawaii again declares Obama birth certificate real" (link). The same title is used on a few other reports at different sites, so that's the original AP title. And, as will be shown, the title and the content contain a major lie. Song writes:

My question for the Youtube/Barack Obama July 1, 2009 healthcare townhall - 6/30/2009

... Babbington and Philip Elliott of the Associated Press more or less admit this was a sham (link): [Debbie Smith from the Exhibit A quote above] is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama's political operation within the Democratic National Committee. She obtained her ticket through the White House... But details on exactly how to do those things were generally lacking in his hour-long t...

Appleseed wants changes to immigration courts (Soros-linked) - 6/11/2009

The unbylined Associated Press article "Group recommends immigration court improvements" (link) sounds OK at first glance: A national advocacy group recommended Wednesday improving the country's beleaguered immigration court system by reforming how judges are selected and promoting impartiality. A study by Appleseed, a non-profit that works to reform the justice system, also suggest...

Wilson Ring/AP promotes public corruption (Roger Allbee, Vermont dairy farms) - 5/13/2009

Wilson Ring of the Associated Press offers two articles about Vermont dairy farms using illegal labor in "Vermont dairy farms count on illegal immigrants" (link, part of their "Immigration Debate") and "Charlotte, Vt., woman helps immigrant farm workers" (link). The first includes a state official openly supporting illegal activity:

Jesse Washington /AP mainstreams MMFA smears, shows no regard for protecting U.S. from epidemic - 5/02/2009

Jesse Washington of the Associated Press - author of this sleazy pro-Obama article - now offers "Immigration foes link flu to Mexican threat claims" (link, assistance from Don Babwin and Barbara Rodriguez of the AP). The article mainstreams - and references - the recent smear article from Tom Allison of Media Matters for America in which the latter downplayed the risk of illegal aliens b...

2009 immigration marches get tea party-level turnout (actually even less) - 5/01/2009

... thousands" per Amy Taxin of the Associated Press, link); UPDATE 2: Julia Preston and Kirk Semple of the New York Times say one of the L.A. marches had 'about 1,000 people carrying Mexican flags and wearing T-shirts saying “Legalize America now"' (link). * Milwaukee: "It’s estimated that between three and five thousand people showed up Friday, versus the 30,000 people ...

Live coverage Obama press conference April 29, 2009 - 4/29/2009

... question by Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press whether he will close the border with Mexico in regards to the swine flu. He's giving a two minute answer that boils down to what anyone should have expected he would say: no. She also asked whether he'll be ordering quarantines and he didn't answer that. Now he's engaging in what he refers to as "trivial" advice to ...

El Paso: visitors waved through border, little or no screening, just like normal day - 4/28/2009

The Associated Press offers this report from El Paso, Texas: U.S. airport officials and border agents waved people through Monday with little or no additional screening for Mexico’s deadly swine flu - a far more muted reaction than the extreme caution elsewhere around the world. At the main pedestrian border crossing between El Paso and Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, a handful of people wore protecti...

College Board comes out for anti-American DREAM Act, depriving U.S. citizens of college educations (Gaston Caperton, Thomas Rudin, Roberto Gonzales) - 4/21/2009

... Washington; his blurb is at [1]. An Associated Press article on them by Hope Yen is here. The PDF can be downloaded from professionals.collegeboard.com/policy-advocacy/diversity/undocumented The president of the Board is former West Virginia governor Gaston Caperton, and the AP article quotes Thomas Rudin, their "Senior Vice President for Advocacy, Government Relations, and Development"...

Suzanne Gamboa /AP big scoop: 55 U.S. citizens deported in past eight years - 4/13/2009

Suzanne Gamboa of the Associated Press - with help from Traci Carl and Peter Prengaman - offers her version of investigative journalism in "AP IMPACT: Citizens held as illegal immigrants" (link). She says that 55 U.S. citizens have been deported over the past eight years. That's 55 too many, but that's only a infinitesimal fraction of all those who have been deported during tha...

Rep. William Lacy Clay: no immigration raids during Census (+Gary Locke) - 3/30/2009

Hope Yen of the Associated Press says: (Rep. William Lacy Clay, Democrat of Missouri) said he planned to push the Obama administration to halt raids next year, noting that immigration officials did so during the 2000 census... "It think it should be repeated to tamp down on any fears the immigrant population might have on certain raids, whether they are here legally or not," said Clay, w...

Liz Sidoti /AP: Obama's opponents still racist (lies, takes quotes out of context, elides statistics...) - 3/30/2009

... as racist. Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press decided to carry on that fine tradition after the election (link): Disproved and disputed claims about his religion and citizenship, namely untruths that Obama is a Muslim and isn't U.S.-born, zip across chatrooms and dominate the blogosphere. Fringe critics largely are responsible for perpetuating the lies, but even elected officials have raised...

Condi Rice promotes immigration "reform", bad policy (why?) - 3/16/2009

Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press informs us that Condoleezza Rice spoke at Stanford University on Friday and said the following (link):

Juliana Barbassa /AP: it's "drastic" to cut non-emergency health care to illegal aliens - 3/15/2009

Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press offers "Budget crunch cuts illegal immigrants' health care" (link), a discussion of localities reducing or eliminating non-emergency healthcare to illegal aliens. On the one hand, supporters of illegal immigration are quick to tell us that illegal aliens don't get welfare benefits; on the other hand, when those benefits (broadly construe...

Illegal aliens can get cash payments under stimulus package (ITIN numbers) UPDATE: maybe not - 1/29/2009

... illegal aliens. UPDATE: The Associated Press report above is from Julie Hirschfeld Davis, and she's now updated the report to say the opposite: that illegal aliens won't be able to get those payments without a Social Security Number (link), quoting Harry Reid as saying: "This legislation is directed toward people who are legal in our country. It is about time the Republicans got...

Bush lifted "Auntie Zeituni Rule" after election - 1/26/2009

... Bridis and Eileen Sullivan of the Associated Press inform us that the AP has received documents about that directive obtained under the FOIA (link): The Homeland Security Department reversed itself Monday, saying that weeks after the presidential election it lifted a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants. ...The directive expres...

Benediction at Obama's inaugural: all white people are racists, all non-white are oppressed (Rev. Joseph Lowery) - 1/20/2009

... vast audience. And, an unnamed Associated Press writer offers "Lowery gives sole inaugural note of racial caution" (link). That's the AP's own title, and after looking at over a dozen reprints I was unable to find out who wrote it; if someone can find a byline somewhere please leave it in comments: Amid the outpouring of inaugural joy over the racial progress represented by Pr...

Lubchenco, Lysenko: Hope Yen/AP on Obama's science picks and politicization - 12/20/2008

The aptly-named Hope Yen of the Associated Press offers an article about recent science-related Barack Obama appointments. She shows us what she at least really thinks about the politicization of science: she supports it, just as long as the politics are the right kind. In fact, either she or an AP editor re-wrote a later version of the article to delete a questionable phrase; see the two editions...

Nancy Pelosi: no "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens might be compromise - 12/06/2008

... October 2008, but an unrelated Associated Press article contained the following suggestion from Nancy Pelosi (link): Pelosi also said Congress would have to tackle the politically sticky job of overhauling immigration laws in the new Congress, after a bipartisan measure collapsed last year. The estimated 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally "are part of the U.S. economy. We cannot s...

Obama cabinet not diverse enough for some (has two white men, no Asians) - 12/04/2008

Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press offers "Obama is delivering diversity, but some seek more" (link). Since she's not liked by the nutroots, figuring out where she's coming from is left as an exercise: Barack Obama, soon to be the first black U.S. president, is on the road to making good his pledge to have a Cabinet and White House staff that are among most diverse ever, al...

Munificent Obama distributes food to oppressed poor (Sara Kugler) - 11/26/2008

Will the wonders of our new leader never cease? Let's hope they don't! In fact, here's an AP report from Sara Kugler about his latest magnificent acts (illustrated right): Barack Obama and his wife say they wanted to show their young daughters the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday, especially at a time when so many are struggling. They took 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old S...

Jesse Washington/AP's supposed "outbreak of racial anger" after Obama win - 11/16/2008

Jesse Washington of the Associate Press provides another example of Obama supporters continuing to play the race card after the election and by so doing shows that Obama's method of winning hasn't actually done much about race relations. The article is an example of the MSM and friends basically just keeping one race in line as was done in the past with another race (link). Crosses burni...

ADN: AP Palin story on pipeline bids was "remarkably skewed" (Justin Pritchard, Garance Burke) - 11/01/2008

... (link) about last week's Associated Press "investigation" from Justin Pritchard and Garance Burke about bids for a major Alaskan pipeline project [1]. This report from The Associated Press is a remarkably skewed account with little new information to support the charge it implies. Presumably, readers are supposed to conclude that Palin tilted the gas line bidding toward a favored ...

Obama's October surprise-ish: State of Hawaii says his birth certificate is genuine (but...) - 10/31/2008

... 12/05/08 update below] The Associated Press offers an article perhaps misleadingly titled "State declares Obama birth certificate genuine" (link). There are some problems with the article, as will be discussed below. State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital s...

Rachel d'Oro/AP's sleazy race-baiting to support Barack Obama - 10/18/2008

Rachel d'Oro of the Associated Press offers an extremely sleazy, disreputable, race-baiting article called "Alaska's minorities feel ignored by Palin" (link). Articles like this show exactly how a Barack Obama presidency would operate: surrogates - assisted by the mainstream media - would attempt to racialize every decision made by Obama in an attempt to silence critics. Alask...

Sarah Palin rape kit smear: chronology (Mary Pemberton/AP, DailyKos, Americablog, Eric Croft, Obama campaign) - 9/29/2008

... [7]. 9/11/08: Mary Pemberton of the Associated Press moved the smear from bloggers to major newspapers, offering this: Former Democratic Rep. Eric Croft, who sponsored that bill, said he was disappointed that simply asking the Wasilla police department to stop didn't work. Croft said he doubts she was unaware of the practice. 9/12/08: Joe Sudbay of Americablog said this [8]: Listened to the ...

Barack Obama lies about Rush Limbaugh in Spanish-language ads - 9/17/2008

... (link) * Kathleen Hennessey of the Associated Press discusses a BHO campaign stop and works this in as well: One [BHO] commercial airing in Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado links McCain to comments apparently hostile to immigrants made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. (link) UPDATE 4: Even a day after Jake Tapper called the ad misleading, others are valiantly struggling with the...

John McCain ad was right and Barack Obama, MSM misled about BHO's kindergartener sex education bill - 9/16/2008

... and Charles Babbington of the Associated Press claim that the ad "misrepresent[ed] [BHO's] position on sex education for kindergartners." (link). That's not completely inaccurate, but it fails to note that BHO either hasn't read, hasn't understood, or is misrepresenting the bill. * Joe Garofali of the San Francisco Chronicle falsely states 'Obama doesn't...

Alternet intentionally misquotes Sarah Palin (Army "on a task that is from God") - 9/08/2008

... have taken their smear from the Associated Press. On Sep. 3, Gene Johnson of the AP offered what's called here "Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'". See the full quote here. And, in his interview with Palin, Charlie Gibson reached Alternet level (link, see also this): GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldie...

SPP North American Leaders Summit April 21, 22 in New Orleans - 4/20/2008

... government." Becky Bohrer of the Associated Press red baits here, following this paragraph with a quote from one of the "People's Summit" protesters with a quote from someone from the U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization: One target of protesters is expected to be the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. They say the pact, which aims to share information between...

SPLC's "The Year in Hate" misled about FBI hate crime statistics - 3/31/2008

... result...", link) * The Associated Press' David Crary ("Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate", 3/9, link) * Casey Woods of the Miami Herald ("Anti-illegal immigration groups grow in Florida", 3/31, link) * Bruce Tomaso of the Dallas Morning News offers "Study finds hate groups on the rise, fueled by anti-immigrant sentiments" (link), but provides this c...

Michael Rubinkam/AP offers yet more "crops rotting in the fields" propaganda - 3/24/2008

Michael Rubinkam of the Associated Press offers yet another in the long line of "crops rotting in the fields" articles, which are propaganda designed to support an immigration amnesty and/or "guest" worker program. In the current case (link), it concerns the Keith Eckel, owner of Fred W. Eckel Sons Farms Inc. who says he's going to switch from tomatoes to mechanically-harv...

ACLU, Leslie Berestein, Amy Isackson defending looters because they're illegal aliens - 10/26/2007

... here's Gillian Flaccus of the Associated Press with "Thieves and scam artists try to take advantage of SoCal fires" (link): At the stadium, volunteer Karen Huff said she and other volunteers alerted police earlier this week when they spotted a half-dozen people loading two pickup trucks with relief items. Police confronted the thieves and recovered the goods... "Thousands of d...

Supporters of immigration laws threatened by John McCain - 8/16/2007

... over his immigration stance and Associated Press writer Steven Paulson, while noting that McCain "declined to elaborate on the threats" otherwise took him at his word and refers to the threats as "unprecedented". He probably isn't lying, but then again he's probably received such threats over the course of his career. They might have picked up due to the fact that ma...

Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) - 3/09/2007

On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama introduced the "Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007". This important story was overshadowed by the most likely unimportant story about his stock holdings [1]. The CPA could be described as a "New Democrats Initiative/Funding Source for Possibly Foreign-Linked Pro-Illegal Immigration Groups" bill, and perhaps some reporters should have asked Obama a...

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