WOW... Media Matters - AP Did a Hit Piece on Reid!!!

[jsamuel]

AP left out key facts in report linking Reid, Abramoff

"The article suggested that Reid coordinated with Abramoff to sabotage proposed legislation that would have raised the minimum wage in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory represented by Abramoff, without noting that, in fact, Reid was a co-sponsor of that legislation and spoke on the Senate floor in favor of its passage."

MORE...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200602100001

No exchange for official acts here!!!
BOOOYAA!!!

[jsamuel]

1. Does this belong in LBN?

:shrug:

Does MM count as LBN?

[glitch]

10. If AP counts, and it does, then MM correction should. nt

[Up2Late]

2. They left a lot out of that article, a lot of us here at DU noticed...

...a few thing at this link: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2096899> :evilgrin:

[catnhatnh]

3. Yep...

...and AP now goes on my Shit List...the last item we need to have debunked is the Malaya trip...

[xultar]

4. I knew that shit was a hit from the start. Just by reading the title.

The fuckers @ the AP need to EAT SHIT AND DROP DEAD

[Oilwellian]

5. Josh Marshall recently updated

After reading my earlier posts on the AP article on Jack Abramoff and Harry Reid, longtime TPM Reader DY wrote in and said, "After I read your post, I was wondering something. Did AP call Ron Platt? I mean, he clearly was willing to talk, and he clearly would have added to the story. Or actually, made a third of the story false, but be that as it may..."

(Platt, of course, is the former Greenberg-Traurig lobbyist who the AP article alleges was Abramoff's point of contact in trying to persuade Reid to support the position of the Marianas Island sweatshop owners. For the details on this and why talking to Platt might have been relevant, see this earlier post from this afternoon.)

Anyway, that sounded like a good question.

So I got hold of Platt and asked him. He told me he hadn't spoken to them for the piece and they'd made no attempt to get hold of him.

"So AP not only did not speak to you for this article, but made no attempt to speak to you?," I asked in a follow-up earlier this evening. "Exactly. No Voicemail<.> no record of any incoming," came his reply.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[FreedomAngel82]

6. They'd do anything to get rid of Reid

[Oilwellian]

7. Here's AP's contact address

Just in case you wanna write them a sweet little letter:

http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html

[Rainscents]

8. AP is now, right wing hack!

They're on my shit list!

[EFerrari]

17. They lost me over their election and post election coverage. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. i had a bad feeling about that article when i saw it on the wire

it just seemed....incomplete, so i chose not run it in today's paper until i heard more

[Tigress DEM]

11. So DID Reid sabotage the legislation he himself co-sponsored?

Or was it a smear campaign against Reid by AP?

[Oilwellian]

13. Reid voted AGAINST Abramoff's interests

Funny how AP didn't mention that important part of the story.

[Tigress DEM]

19. So a smear by AP.

Thanks

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. A GD thread on this outrage and Josh Marshall's response to it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x372952
thread title (2-9-06 GD): AP tries to link Reid (D-NV) to Abramoff, Josh Marshall crushes the piece

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. We need the name of the AP whore who wrote the piece. Obviously

it's been infiltrated by someone like the guy on MSNBC that goes around selling his time to conservative groups to teach them how to influence conservative voters.

[deutsey]

15. I sent this to WRC in DC, which parroted the AP report on its

morning news show.

[jsamuel]

16. kick

[jsamuel]

18. kick