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Michelle Malkin: AP’s final dig at President Bush
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias: Absolutely Pathetic AP Headline: 'Bush address includes laundry list of back patting'
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts: On Bush’s Speech (Obama didn’t Watch, and Yes, it was a “Laundry List of Backpatting”)
AP’s final dig at President Bush
Michelle Malkin —
[image] President Bush delivered his farewell address this evening. He leaves a mixed legacy. I give him credit where it is due and blame where it is due. But one thing is unadulterated: The pure contempt of the man from the MSM. Here’s how the Associated Press headlined its dispatch about the speech: Bush address includes laundry list of back patting In his farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush is acknowledging that many of his decisions are unpopular with the American people. But he says there can be no debate about the results. Indeed, a text of the ...
Absolutely Pathetic AP Headline: 'Bush address includes laundry list of back patting'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Wow.
This unbylined Associated Press story (HT Michelle Malkin) doesn't really require any elaboration, except to note one thing -- It ends the debate over the existence of liberal/left media bias:
Exit question:
As the once mighty continue to fall (the latest being Minneapolis Star Tribune), what will the history books say about the relationship between the perilous condition of most of print media outlets and the seven years or so many of them spent suffering from full-blown Bush Derangement Syndrome?
On Bush’s Speech (Obama didn’t Watch, and Yes, it was a “Laundry List of Backpatting”)
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... Indeed, I had a similar reaction that the AP’s headline writer had: Bush address includes laundry list of back patting (which Michelle Malkin called the ...
AP: Metamorphosis into Associated Opinion Completed
PoliGazette —
... The AP published a very short, but cynical article about President George W. Bush’s farewell address. The ‘news item’ should never have seen the light of day, or it should have been published as ‘opinion’ rather than ‘news,’ because the tone of it is so ludicrously anti-Bush that even Markos Moulitsas (founder of Daily Kos) would be embarrassed to see something like this being published in the name of objective reporting. ...
