Arthur Chrenkoff has the story of the continued decline of this desiccated news organization. Next up, the AP will be doing nostalgic stories of Berlin circa 1937. It’s getting almost comical.
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This is the same AP that totally ignored (spiked) the first press conference by the anti-Kerry Swift Boat veterans. They wouldn’t know a news-worthy story if it bit them in the front page. That press conference, of course, telegraphed a movement that was to prove vital in defeating the US presidential candidate.
But AP readers would have to wait until the story became too large to hide before they heard about it.
Here we see just another sign of the same anybody-but-Bush mentality. Nothing can be right if Bush did it.
That point of view leads to a blindness to real trends and real news, ultimately a great disservice to the readers.
Actually, The Nation’s leading intellectual light, Katrina van den Huevel had a variation on that particular theme just this week:
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=2282
She gets extra points for being able to add Halliburton to the short list of blamees, though.
I remember hearing stories about the lousy sewage system, the lousy electric system and the poverty stricken populace long before this invasion came. And then of course there was the pillage of the Marsh Arabs…now that was lovely.
I swear to God Baghdad will have to be the Paris of the Arab world before these people will give it a rest.
Roger:
They say in Stalinist and post Stalin Moscow you could leave your wallet in the metro and find it days later. That Stalin fellow had the right idea. Get rid off human rights, give the government the ability to hand out life sentences that often lead to death for any crime, run the judiciary as a private device to settle your political grudges and poof, crime is eliminated. You can’t argue with the statistics.
Roger:
The wisdom of the AP has made me change my mind about Lincoln. Think how his evil war destroyed the plantation society of the South. Priceless antibelum architecture lost forever. The city of Atlanta burned to the ground! And think about entire lines of Horses and Donkeys fed into Abe’s meatgrinder! PETA should push to have that wretched bearded killers’ monument replaced with a Holocaust Museum for the spirits of those murdered animals. Yes, slavery was icky but I feel the butchers bill was too much.
This paragraph was particularly interesting:
“Even democracy has taken its toll on Baghdad. Posters and banners of candidates running in the landmark Jan. 30 elections — a collage of mismatching colors — are still plastered everywhere, tainting roundabouts and walls two months after the vote”
It does seem that for many on the left, aesthetics has replaced ethics. (I’m pretty sure I remember seeing comments on moonbat sites along the lines that we shouldn’t liberate Iraq because that would bring in WalMart and ugly up the place…)
Terrye ó “I swear to God Baghdad will have to be the Paris of the Arab world before these people will give it a rest.” Sadly, right now, it pretty much is…
Photoncourier ó From Nancy *stare* Pelosi ó “The actions of the majority in attempting to pass constitutionally-dubious legislation are highly irregular and an improper use of legislative authority.” That damn majority again. Didn’t Ted Kennedy warn us about that?
What the hell? Now Google is advertising for Hamas? Link from lgf.com.
“I swear to God Baghdad will have to be the Paris of the Arab world before these people will give it a rest.”
Posted by: Terrye at March 27, 2005 12:08 PM
You say that like it would be a good thing.
ìWhat the hell? Now Google is advertising for Hamas? Link from lgf.com.î
The real question is how long will that ad stay up on Google? To be fair, I can easily imagine someone in its advertising department being unaware of what Hamas truly represents. It should be gone by tomorrow.
Weren’t they supposed to pick the new PM this weekend?
They need to get a move on with the new government. I would hate to see the people lose hope.
KatrinaVH:
Hey lady, the natives have been calling it Baghdad for a little while now.
Condescending, out-of-touch, and truly irrelevant.
The kites! They forgot to mention the kites! Michael Moore SWORE there were kites. Didn’t the AP get the memo?
The article is truly breathtaking in the scope of its intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
Roger,
I stopped paying attention to the AP (Associated Phables) ever since they reported that the crowd boo’d when President Bush, at a pre-election rally, wished Bill Clinton a speedy recovery from his impending heart surgery. Actually, the crowd cheered quite loudly. The Associated Phables report wanted to paint the republicans as mean spirited, and so fabricated the story. Based upon that, I routinely assume that they’ve been fabricating stories for quite some time, and are still fabricating them to this day. I don’t waste my time with them any more….If I see the AP (Associated Phables) byline on a story, I just skip over it as yet another piece of fiction from the TSM (Terrorist Supporting Media). Heh.
Roger, you may have been using sarcasm in your remark about Berlin in 1937, but Reuters isn’t when they report a poll showing that Germans from both sides of the great divide are waxing nostalgic about the Berlin wall. You remember the Berlin wall. It was where the bodies of people trying to escape to the west were left to rot after they were shot by the East Berlin border guards.
Ah, yes. “Those were the days, my friend. Those were the days!” The good old days when the left was safely ensconced in power worldwide and the MSM totally controlled the flow of information.
Well. Those days are gone and the sun is beginning to shine even into the dark corners at the irreproachable U.N. I never thought I’d live to see the day the U.N. gets its comeuppance. I’m actually feeling dizzy thinking about it.
erp,
Oh, but for the return of the good ol’ days of the Berlin Wall! The guard towers… the open space to let the machinegunners do their work should some poor sap make a run for it, the dog runs in case the machinegunners missed…
I spent some time there – real time, not a quick look. It was one of the most evil looking things I’ve had the displeasure to set eyes on. They probably long for Spandau Prison too. I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything that had such an air of “Satan was here!” as Spandau did.
But, heh, if you lived on the Left’s preferred side of The Wall at least you knew there was a place for everyone and everyone was in their place. That’s all the left really wants, after all; everyone in their place.
Perhaps those pining for the past beauty of Babylon might meander down to the marsh and have a gawp.