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Ramblings From the Ragged Crumbling Edge Of The Reality-Based Community

Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Fournier AP Dream Machine Marches On 

...as anybody who has been getting all wonky with the political scene knows, the head of the Washington, DC, Associated Press bureau is Ron Fournier, who has a history of exceedingly friendly correspondence with Karl Rove and is alleged to have sought employment with the Republican effort to hold on to the White House. There isn't any dramatic proof that he is, in his role as the AP bureau chief in Washington DC, some sort of journalistic Republican Manchurian Candidate, even though there is a disturbing electron trail of what reasonable people could consider to be 'fellow traveler' evidence...

On The Other Hand...

Tonight, after a dramatic and specific acceptance speech by Barack Obama in front of more people than Huggy Bear could expect to attract at any 10 or 15 events combined, we find ourselves facing a 'first out of the block' analysis of Obama's speech by Charles Babington of the AP that, stunningly, says that Obama only spoke in flowery terms about his own plans and in snippy, whiney terms about all things McSame...

Because the AP is losing market shares by leaps and bounds and has decided that all of its words are deathless and chargable prose, I can't actually excerpt Mr. Babington's febrile neo-thoughts. Can't afford that cost-per-word thing, after all, so you'll have to go read the linked article yourself. I can say two things, however:

A) I can only assume that Charles Babington has some really, really nice real estate holdings that he can't afford to lose by refusing to do one of the most lame, ineffectual hatchet jobs that has ever been seen on behalf of a particular political party in the rapidly diminishing history of a once-proud independent media.

2) I probably shouldn't make too much of this, but it does so happen that Charles Babington, who apparently didn't actually see Barack Obama's acceptance speech (surprising, that, given that it was so widely available on TV), is an employee of the Associated Press stationed in Washington DC, which would mean that he takes his orders from Ron Fournier, Washington AP bureau chief and well-known friend of Karl Rove.

Many things are much clearer to me now...

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