The Associated Press has really started to lose it in the last few days. The conglomeration of newspapers and media outlets started stirring the pot with their anti-blogger crusade, starting with Drudge Retort last week. Now they were caught disparaging Michelle Obama with no proof whatsoever to back up their trashy claims.
From Buckeyemike at DailyKos:
Listening to my local radio stations news, I was shocked to hear the right wing smears againist Michelle Obama have now made it into the Associated Press's daily news feed to small radio and newspapers.
The report was that "the Obama campaign is trying to react quickly to reports againist Michelle Obama. She was quoted as saying that she had never been proud of America in her adult life.
She has been trying to improve her image with appearance today on "The View"."She is reported to have made remarks about WHITEY in a speech at a church in Chicago."
I was shocked that there was no reference that this is just a claim, they reported it as if they had evidence that she truly said this in a speech, not what some right wingnuts had alledged. They say it enough times and now the AP is reporting it as TRUE.
I have called the radio station and written to AP, but I think we need to take more action. Any ideas on what we can do to combat this???? Listening to my local radio stations news, I was shocked to hear the right wing smears againist Michelle have now made it into the Associated Press's daily news feed to small radio and newspapers.
Watch out Mike, the AP may be coming for you for reporting on their abysmal style. The mainstream constantly acts this way with Michelle Obama and many others by reporting on the rumors from the right-wing, which only spreads the maliciousness to a wider audience outside of email-blasts and viewers of Redstate and LittleGreenFootballs. Unfortunately we have to expect more of this crap as we get farther down the road towards November. The only thing we can do is fight back by speaking out once these lies are spewed by the media.
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