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newsbusters.org - 8/24/2008
MoveOn.org Attacks AP's Fournier Over Biden As VP Analysis
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As NewsBusters reported earlier, the Associated Press's Ron Fournier published a surprisingly accurate analysis of presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's decision to tap Joe Biden as his running mate. Not surprisingly, the far-left organization MoveOn -- never happy when a mainstream media outlet has the nerve to actually say anything bad about a liberal -- has posted a ...

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Nutroots Brownshirts Threaten AP
JammieWearingFool — ... loved the Washington bureau...I just hope he doesn’t destroy it.” When the AP's Nedra Pickler acted as a GOP operative we generated over 15,000 letters to the editor at papers that carry the AP wire stories across the country, letting them hear from their own subscribers that this kind of propaganda is not acceptable as campaign coverage. It's time to crank that tool out again. Ron Fournier must be taken off the Presidential beat . He's got an obvious conflict-of-interest. Seems the schmucks at Moron.org are also in on the gag. Labels: ...

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