…that I spurn this as being too easy.
The Associated Press is trying to get its Washington, DC bureau designated a “prostitution free zone.”
This is not a criticism of @streiffredstate. What is and is not worth a man’s time is an individual judgement, and there are no right or wrong answers on the individual level. It’s just that, on mine, I prefer that the prey puts up a little more of a fight.
…No, actually, the AP demonstrated professional ethics. Twice.
The Associated Press reports today that it learned last week of a thwarted Al Qaeda-affiliated plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airplane, but did not report on it because of an agreement with the White House and the CIA. However, the AP did decide to report the story one day earlier than the White House had requested.
“The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way,” the AP’s Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman report. “Once those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.”
Continue reading The Associated Press demonstrates professional ethics in terror bomb case.
Or, rather, they don’t actually realize that the soaking is already happening.
The most immediate thing to take away from this Hill poll is what the article on the subject leads with: which is, that something like three-fourths of the American electorate thinks that that the tax rate for the wealthy should be lower than it actually is (about the same proportion has a similar attitude towards similar tax rates for corporations). So far, so good – but then there was this frankly laughable paragraph from the Hill article:
The new data seem to run counter to several polls that have found support for raising taxes on high-income earners. In an Associated Press-GfK poll released Friday, 65 percent said they favored President Obama’s “Buffett Rule” that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income. And a Pew poll conducted in June found 66 percent of adults favored raising taxes on those making more than $250,000 as a way to tackle the deficit.
The bolding is mine – and is, of course, nonsense. And you can tell that quite handily by looking at the questions. In order: Continue reading Hill poll: American electorate apparently not addicted to soaking rich.
If you’re wondering what that is, it’s the D/R/I breakdown of the AP poll of adults that ‘shows’ the President at a 60% approval level. Hot Air doesn’t say, but I will: that’s roughly the same ratio that this AP poll was reporting in May of 2009… which is to say, before Barack Obama and the Democrats put on big hob-nailed boots and started jumping up and down on their collective reputation.
In other words: um. No.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: And in the field of ‘burying the lede’… the actual headline of that AP article should have been “Former President George W Bush hits 50% approval rating in ridiculously Dem-heavy poll.” Put another way:
Apparent-ly!
[UPDATE] Heh. Jim Geraghty and I really do think somewhat alike.
It makes you wonder what the AP has, to make this admission by HOPE-and-paste ripoff artist Shepard Fairey look like the preferable option:
In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his “Hope” poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Via Deceiver.com, which also links to this report that at least some of Fairey’s attorneys are pulling out of the lawsuit. Which is actually a pity, as the most proper response to this situation is to root for injuries…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
I take two points off the style for the profanity: a little is fine, but after the fourth bleeped-out word you’re being derivative. As for execution… the hoe was a nice touch, but if you hit a camera with one I expect to see pieces fly.
What? No, I didn’t take points off because people didn’t get hurt. That’s just sick; you don’t want people to actually get hurt in these things. No, I took points off because she didn’t go after the second camera, too.
(Via Gateway Pundit) Get used to this graphic, because you’re going to be seeing it a lot:
These numbers, of course, reflect percentage changes in tax revenues, not the amount collected. For that highly depressing number we’ll go to Heritage:
…which by the way indicates that the gap between tax revenues and federal spending suddenly started to accelerate somewhere around 2007. Which is about the time that the Democrats got back Congress, oddly enough.
If you’re still in a mental state where you’re not motivated to do something about this insane financial free fall that the Democrats have signed us up for, I suggest that you read this AP report closely. Particularly the bits where it notes that the worst-case scenario on Social Security insolvency has the first crisis point hitting at 2013 now. Not as far away as it used to be, is it?
Moe Lane
PS: Remember this?
This is the problem with the Democratic party’s strategy of deciding that the Social Security crisis was best to be solved by the future; I happen to live there.
Crossposted to RedState.
No, really. Despite the fact that putting up your own material on YouTube in embeddable form means that you’re officially OK with letting people embed it. Despite the fact that Google, which owns YouTube, also has an agreement with the AP to republish the AP’s material. There’s still a cease-and-desist letter out. (H/T AoSHQ Headlines, Hot Air)
Delicacy prevents me from explicitly giving my suggestion on why the AP thought that this was a good idea: suffice it to say that said suggestion involves a thumb.
Crossposted to RedState.
(Via Brother Pejman of RedState) As it stands, there’s a problem with this report, and it’s not what you think:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.
The report recommended some changes, including an increase in group recreation for some of the camp’s more dangerous or less compliant prisoners, according to a government official familiar with the study. The report also suggested allowing those prisoners to gather in groups of three or more, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not officially been released.
Continue reading AP: Pentagon Report declares Gitmo ‘humane’.
You know: Shepard Fairey, who took time out from cosplaying a graphic artist for Minitruth and plagiarizing everything that moved to trace out the iconic image of our new President.
Oh, well, it’s America, so it’s not like we really know what to do with irony, anyway. Might as well just shoot in the head and leave it dead in a ditch somewhere; seems more honest, really. Anyway, the AP finally noticed that they got ripped off. Amusingly, they did not see this as merely the logical extension of their already-quite-obvious policy for 2008 (i.e., getting Barack Obama elected any which way that they could that didn’t involve actual weapons), and thus a humorous quirk of the election. We just shot irony, remember? There was a loud explosion and everything.
Continue reading Rooting for Injuries Watch: The AP vs. that annoying trace artist guy.
