Did we mention the AP has a Ron Fournier problem?

It's also worth noting that Rupert Murdoch joined the Associated Press Board of Directors within the past year.  He has done more to poison the political culture in this nation than anyone else.

Here's the link to the AP Board roster.  I'd bet that a background check on this cast of characters would reveal plenty of rightwing bias....

http://www.ap.org/pages/about/board.html

There's no surprise here.  At every turn in this election, particularly since the two nominees were effectively finalized, every move Obama has made has been portrayed in a negative light, while nearly every move McCain has made has been portrayed in a positive light.  The crystalline moment of this was when Obama was criticized for drinking orange juice, not coffee, at a diner, which was supposed to show his out-of-touch elitism.  Only in the conservative-dominated (i. e., the entire) media could the choice of orange juice be evidence of elitism...

If Obama had picked one of the others, all we would have heard is that he didn't pick someone who has the experience that someone like Biden has. It would have been a reverse comentary.

I can imagine the right wing chatter.... Obama is such a controlling, self centered elitist, that he chose someone non-threatening, who won't take away from Obama's lime light.

It goes into the spinomatic machine no matter who he chose. I think a president should chose a VP who is qualified to be president if needed, and will compliment the candidate's strengths and weaknesses. Biden is a great choice. He's well rerspected by both parties, and has many GOP supporters and friends.

I also like Joe Biden.  Of course anyone who has been in congress as long as he has, will have made some mistakes or some inappropriate remarks.  So what.

Joe Biden has an amazing range of experience, and he will also get his mouth in gear and start ripping McKept which we need to do.  McKept is a fertile field of potential targets.  It is possible that he is suffering from pre-senile dementia aggravated by PTSD - or another option, his 4-time-recurring malignant melanoma has metastasized to his brain.  In either case, John McInsane is not competent to be president.

McInsane is not a well man and hasn't been for years.  He's an absent senator and Arizona labeled him a carpetbagger years ago.  He's missed every vote in the Senate since April 4th.  Both Obama and Clinton have returned to the Senate for important votes.

McInsane's ties to the Bonanno family and the Keating 5 scandal are well known here in Arizona.  

We all know what the next 90 days are going to be like.  I'm hoping Biden will take the starch out of John McInsane's shorts.  And not that it matters, but CindyLou McMealticket is widely despised here in Phoenix as well. 

 

It's time newspaper consider Reuters as another source of national and international news. A continually shrinking newshole is choking off space devoted to wire copy in newspapers. Meanwhile, AP continues to raise its rates while offering the kind of tripe provide by Fournier.

AP should show him the door before newspapers start searching for an alternative.