9.03.2004
Do you trust the Associated Press?
Bill Clinton, 58, checked into a Manhattan hospital today, complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath. He will shortly undergo bypass surgery for clogged arteries.
Biased AP reporters took it from there. After Bush wished Clinton a speedy recovery at a rally in Wisconsin, "his audience . . . of 1000's booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
I've been to a Bush rally. The people who attend them -- by and large -- are not the type to wish ill upon a former president, or anyone for that matter. Matters of life and death transcend, and make petty, mere politics. At least in this corner of the world. By and large, from my observation, Bush supporters are not the same flavor as say, for instance, those teeming, angry throngs just witnessed in the streets of Manhattan. Unlike Michael Moore, they would not wish that the planes of death had been directed at voters of the opposite persuasion. It might have to do with simple ethics and deeper, moral values.
The AP . . . tsk, tsk, tsk . . . but, what is this? "THEN RETRACTS... 'APPLAUSE' NOTED BY LOCAL MEDIA FOR EX-PREZ... AUDIO... DEVELOPING... " Drudge
UPDATE: Powerful bloggers are jumping on this little tale of rank bias and coverup for all it's worth. Jonathan Last (via Instapundit) has a blow-by-blow of what has happened so far, including:
So the AP: (1) Puts out a story with falsified reporting; (2) Pulls the story; (3) Removes the faulty reporting; (4) Makes no note of its mistake; and then (5) Pulls the byline of the reporter who made the error. If you were going to impute bad faith to the folks at AP--and at this point that's not unreasonable to do--you might suspect that they have pulled Tom Hays's byline to protect him.
Behold the power of Lexis-Nexis. The AP was able to cover their tracks on the web, but Lexis-Nexis keeps all versions of stories which carry different time-stamps.
Biased AP reporters took it from there. After Bush wished Clinton a speedy recovery at a rally in Wisconsin, "his audience . . . of 1000's booed. Bush did nothing to stop them."
I've been to a Bush rally. The people who attend them -- by and large -- are not the type to wish ill upon a former president, or anyone for that matter. Matters of life and death transcend, and make petty, mere politics. At least in this corner of the world. By and large, from my observation, Bush supporters are not the same flavor as say, for instance, those teeming, angry throngs just witnessed in the streets of Manhattan. Unlike Michael Moore, they would not wish that the planes of death had been directed at voters of the opposite persuasion. It might have to do with simple ethics and deeper, moral values.
The AP . . . tsk, tsk, tsk . . . but, what is this? "THEN RETRACTS... 'APPLAUSE' NOTED BY LOCAL MEDIA FOR EX-PREZ... AUDIO... DEVELOPING... " Drudge
UPDATE: Powerful bloggers are jumping on this little tale of rank bias and coverup for all it's worth. Jonathan Last (via Instapundit) has a blow-by-blow of what has happened so far, including:
So the AP: (1) Puts out a story with falsified reporting; (2) Pulls the story; (3) Removes the faulty reporting; (4) Makes no note of its mistake; and then (5) Pulls the byline of the reporter who made the error. If you were going to impute bad faith to the folks at AP--and at this point that's not unreasonable to do--you might suspect that they have pulled Tom Hays's byline to protect him.
Behold the power of Lexis-Nexis. The AP was able to cover their tracks on the web, but Lexis-Nexis keeps all versions of stories which carry different time-stamps.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 2:24 PM 
