i even sent some to repugs so that they would say something about it, bring it up…no bites that i know of..

Like almost all newspapers in the US, the Journal is using the AP wire service for its national news. This includes the 2008 presidential campaign. The Journal has an obligation to its readers to urge the AP to remove Ron Fournier from the AP Washington Bureau.

Fournier’s dalliance with the McCain campaign is well-known. He seriously considered joining the campaign last year. Ironically, the matter was reported by the AP. If it was simply a matter of his considering a job with the McCain campaign, his presence might be tolerable. But Fournier’s reporting of the campaign has been especially inaccurate with regard to Barack Obama.

The AP got the story on Obama’s faith-based initiative exactly backwards, claiming that Obama intended to expand President Bush’s ill-advised program. In fact, Obama proposed a strengthening of the safeguards that were in place before President Bush dismantled them.

Last March, Fournier wrote a piece that accused Senator Obama of arrogance and elitism. This might be objective journalism, if there were a parallel story of McCain’s involvement in corrupt activities. Recall that Senator McCain was member of the Keating Five, near the center of the Savings and Loan scandal. McCain escaped censure from the Senate Ethics Committee only because his activities took place while he was Congressman. But we have no such articles from AP questioning McCain’s integrity, instead there was a 1200 word paean to McCain’s combative bipartisanship by David Espo. There is a clear bias in the AP’s reportage. As chief of their Washington Bureau, Fournier must be responsible for the bias.

The readers of the Journal (and of every newpaper in the US) deserve even-handed coverage of the campaign. Fournier has made it quite clear that he cannot provide fair coverage. The Journal needs to call AP immediately and urge Fournier’s reassignment to a less-critical post.

Of course, this situation we have of only one outlet, the AP (Assorted Pastries), supplying most of the nation’s news, was all carefully planned out. It’s much easier to control the message this way, as Ron Fornrove is proving. With the recent addition of Ruturd Murdoch and Sam Zell (the really scary guy) to the AP board, is there any wonder what’s going on, and how intentional it all is?

by this, i mean the neo-cons.

and watch the movie ‘missing/
we were involved .

he knew all about pinochet-he was assistant to ford then chief of staff.
from cheney’s wiki–

Cheney’s political career began in 1969, as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger during the Nixon Administration. He then joined the staff of Donald Rumsfeld, who was then Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1969–70.[11] He held several positions in the years that followed: White House Staff Assistant in 1971, Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971–73,
and Deputy Assistant to the president from 1974–1975. It was in this position that Cheney suggested in a memo to Rumsfeld that the Ford White House should use the Justice Department in a variety of legally questionable ways to exact retribution for an article published by The New York Times investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.[17][18]

Cheney was Assistant to the President under Gerald Ford. When Rumsfeld was named Secretary of Defense, Cheney became White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Rumsfeld.[11] He later was campaign manager for Ford’s 1976 presidential campaign as well.[19]