... here's a real story from the Associated Press that we don't have to imagine (link). As you can see, the AP isn't treating this the same way they would the thought experiments above, and don't expect the rest of the political and media class to bat an eye either:
The nonprofit group Presente is leading the "No Somos Rubios" (We are not Rubios) campaign. It plans to protest and fly an airplane...
... someone else.
* Holly Ramer of the Associated Press ( peekURL.com/zuXBXjd )
* Shira Schoenberg of the Boston Globe ( peekURL.com/zCyWYza )
* Fox News (partly based on the AP report, peekURL.com/zmWEuRn )
* Adam Gabbatt of the Guardian ( peekURL.com/zzZ5LjZ )
* Ros Krasny of Reuters ( peekURL.com/z5cWRea )
* Salt Lake Tribune ( peekURL.com/zpX6VHg )
* Cindy McCain, wife of John McCain tweeted: "I...
... spoke with Alicia Caldwell of the Associated Press to share the news with a sympathetic ear (her writeup is here).
Then, there were "staff level calls to dream letter signatories"; that refers to the April letter (link) that various Congressmen sent to Napolitano urging her to leave DREAM Act students alone. Those signatories are: Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Pat Leahy, Carl Levin, Daniel Akaka,...
... so, then Kate Brumback of the Associated Press is not on your side. Her report on the boycott [1] and an earlier report from her [2] failed to note Maus' former job.
If you think Kate Brumback should have revealed that a group organizing a boycott of a U.S. state is headed by a former consul general of Mexico, then contact her via Twitter with your thoughts: @KateBrumback.
If anyone has contact...
... Gingrich as a protest. Video below; Associated Press story here; event location: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This is obviously despicable behavior that's just one small step up from what the far-left usually engages in: pie throwing, pulling fire alarms, and the like. Whether openly trying to silence those they oppose or just dumping glitter on them, the far-left is incapable of debating their...
An Associated Press / Univision poll of Hispanics conducted earlier this year [1] shows lukewarm support for assimilation, that Hispanics are mostly associating with other Hispanics, that many Hispanics consider "Hispanic" to be a race, and low support for the GOP. Demographic information is at [2].
* Here's the breakdown for "How important is it for Hispanics/Latinos to change so that they blend...
Per this biased Associated Press article, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona helped deport more than 26,000 illegal aliens under the 287g program. That's of course without that state's new immigration law, which is set to take effect tomorrow. Maricopa was responsible for about one-quarter of all those deported under 287g (115,841 total); 64 local agencies are part of the 287g program...
Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press offers "Immigrant farm workers' challenge: Take our jobs" (link) about a new satirical campaign from the United Farmworkers of America. The UFW's campaign is anti-American; if you aren't familiar with this story see the last link. This post only deals with Barbassa's treatment.
She says:
According to the Labor Department, three out of four farm workers...
... abuzz about the release of a new Associated Press article that was supposed to be a fair look at their movement. And, it's here.
Unlike other AP and mainstream media reports, it is generally fair to their side. But, because the tea partiers are what they are, they won't be able to see how it reveals yet again just how ineffective and generally worthless they are.
... comes from Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press. The original AP title is "AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn't so dangerous" [1] and it's based on statistics contained in a new FBI report [2] and on data they received via a FOIA request from Customs and Border Protection (CBP):
It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer.
It's the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians...
Carla Salazar of the Associated Press offers a Topsy-Turvy World article called "Peruvian child becomes symbol of US undocumented" [1] about the seven-year-old girl who revealed to Michelle Obama that her mother was here illegally, causing Michelle Obama to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. The article contains this:
Juliet Williams of the Associated Press asked the three leading California gubernatorial candidates for their positions on Arizona's new illegal immigration law (link):
Meg Whitman was, of course, on the wrong side: "I think there's just better ways to solve this problem... I'm a big believer in, 'What are the two or three things that will make the biggest difference here?'" She then mentioned...
It's Sunshine Week - a celebration of access to government records (sunshineweek.org) - and some in Hawaii want to go the other way: their state House Judiciary Committee was presented with a proposed bill that would allow state officials to ignore requests about the Obama citizenship issue. Needless to say, such a move would be cheered by plenty of borderline fascists on the mainland too; they'd...
From Suzanne Gamboa of the Associated Press comes this:
The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said.
"Clearly it means...
Associated Press/Harry Weber/October 7, 2006/ link
...Six months after 50,000 immigrants and their supporters marched in downtown Atlanta to protest legislation that cracks down on illegal immigrants, the same organizers rallied with a much smaller but similarly vocal crowd...."We want to open the door," said one of the pro immigration rally organizers, Teodoro Maus, 'former Mexican consul in...
... and Justin Juozapavicius of the Associated Press offer "Sarah Palin's fans push for 2012 presidential run" (link). It shows a) how the MSM will use this issue to try to discredit Palin, and b) how her supporters who aren't trying to discredit the MSM are in effect helping the MSM with their goal. These are the 9th through 11th paragraphs:
"B.O. scares me," said Miki Booth, 59, of the president,...
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 contemporaneously...
... 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:
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 "Values for life,"...
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 Bachmann) for creating an...
... 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 come into...
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:
... 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 town...
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 suggested improving...
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 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 bringing...
... 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 who participated last year...
... 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 wash your hands and so on....
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 protective...
... 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". If...
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 that time and...
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, who chairs...
... 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...
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 construed) are cut, they...
... 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 a different...
... 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...
... 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 President Barack...
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...