Archive for posts ‘Associated Press’

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Obama/Gates/Crowley Make MADD Angry

Guys, I don't think that is juice they are drinking.

  • The Delaware chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is not mad, but they are very disappointed in Barack Obama, Skip Gates, and James Crowley for consuming “adult” beverages. (We won’t name them, for fear of scarring the children). (WDEL)
  • The new owners of the Waco Tribune-Herald hope that by printing “In God we trust” on the front of every edition they will be rewarded for deciding that now would be an excellent time to get into the print media business. (Citydesk)
  • Thomas Jefferson™ is a registered trademark of the Associated Press, but his words can be reprinted… for a price. (Laboratorium via Hit & Run)
  • Every time Robert Gibbs says, “the President will not increase taxes on the middle class,” someone from your professional media asks, “But will he increase taxes on the middle class?” And that is why no one is buying their newspapers anymore. (CNN)

8/3/09 4:59 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Half a Trillion Here, Half a Trillion There

A couple of these bad boys and then we're talking REAL money.

  • In a stunning show of bipartisanship, staffers for the Republican and Democratic National Committees teamed up to beat the crap out of poor Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). (Roll Call)
  • Republican members of your Senate Judiciary Committee thought they could catch Sonia Sotomayor off-guard yesterday by asking her about guns and abortion, but–quelle surprise!–somehow she saw those questions coming. (NYT)
  • Hillary Clinton has almost finished paying off her debts from that time Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president because of sexism. Now she only has to pay Mark Penn, who famously said Obama could never win the general election, for his highly valuable services! (CNN Political Ticker/USA Today)
  • The crack team of reporters at your Associated Press is almost accurately reporting the cost of Democrats’ healthcare reform bill. They’re only off by half a trillion dollars, or $500,000,000,000. (TPMDC)

7/16/09 10:03 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Cracking the Pet-Owner Demographic

The Associated Press reports the extremely urgent news that pet owners prefer John McCain to Barack Obama, 42 percent to 37 percent.

Clearly I’m not missing much by not quoting the AP.

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7/8/08 5:11 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: ,

Dear Associated Press, Kindly Blow It Out Your Ass

The big bad AP is outraged! outraged, i tell you! that we mean little bloggers are using quotations from their articles without paying them royalties from the gobs of money that we get from George Soros/the Obama campaign/MoveOn.org/whoever it is that’s supposed to be paying the big bad liberals these days. Apparently, the AP’s definition of fair use means that I should have to pay them $12.50 $7.50 (yay student discounts!) if I use just five words from their articles. So this really means two things:

  1. I’m going to be getting most of my news from other sources, and
  2. From now on, I will only quote at most four words from the Associated Press.

Oh AP, whatever shall I do without you?

Update: From the Great and Powerful Kos:

The AP is going to lecture bloggers about what the “spirit of the internet” is all about? Laughable. And the AP certainly doesn’t have free reign to rewrite copyright law on its own. Fair use provisions exist for a reason

If they don’t back off this ridiculous notion, there will be litigation, and Daily Kos will be happy to be at the forefront of any such effort.

6/17/08 7:42 am | Comment (3) | Permalink | Tags: ,

Clinton Campaign “Fading”

The Clinton campaign can’t like the headline of today’s Huffington Post:

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Yikes.

Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages.

The twin triumphs made 10 straight for Obama, and left the former first lady in desperate need of a comeback in a race she long commanded as front-runner.

2/20/08 11:01 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

Just in Case: AP Prepares Britney’s Obit

I generally don’t follow “celebrity news” because, well, there are lots of more important things going on. This, though, is truly fucked up. For the past month, the Associated Press–that’s no tabloid, folks–has been preparing Britney Spears’ obituary so they can get the jump when she kicks the bucket.

 “We are not wishing it, but if Britney passed away, it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time,” AP entertainment editor Jesse Washington tells Us.

“I think one would agree that Britney seems at risk right now,” Washington adds. “Of course, we would never wish any type of misfortune on anybody and hope that we would never have to use it until 50 years from now…but if something were to happen, we would have to be prepared.”\

Anything for a scoop, I guess. I just hope that, when she does eventually pass, that her death doesn’t inconvenience the media.

1/18/08 12:25 am | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

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