Thursday, March 25, 2010

AP Has Stopped Trying To Pretend They Are Non-Partisan

This is jaw-dropping: Senate Republican holds up jobless benefits

Once again, a stubborn Senate Republican is blocking speedy passage of a stopgap bill to extend jobless benefits, saying its $9 billion cost should not be added to the national debt.

This time it's Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who's insisting that the measure be "paid for" so as not to add to the nation's $12.7 trillion debt.

Note, this is not an "analysis" or an "opinion" piece, this is sold as a straight "news" story.

Leave it to the AP to make the term "journalistic ethics" oxymoronic.

ADDING:

More "objective reporting" from the AP:

Capping an epic struggle, congressional Democrats applied the final touches Thursday to historic legislation enshrining health care as the right of every citizen.

Never mind the fact that one would have to be an uneducated, dim-witted moron to think "rights" are something given out by legislative fiat (if you think they are do us all a favor and please go take a remedial civics course), but one cannot help but wonder if the AP has now taken to reprinting Democratic party memos unedited.

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