The AP Jumps the Shark

By Jayson ~ September 9th, 2005 @ 4:07 pm

The Associated Press managed today to pull off a feat many observers once believed to be impossible.

{No, they didn’t write a fair and objective story. Let’s be realistic. Hell, that would be the subject of a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” episode, not this blog.}

They belched out a headline which made Reuters’ headline about the same event look tame by comparison.

Here’s the way in which Reuters projected their antipathy for Tom DeLay regarding that lobbyist and PAC, down in Texas, who are in trouble with the locals:

“Texas groups linked to DeLay indicted in scandal.”

Okay. That’s merely garden-variety partisan-liberal media bias. Simply par for the course.

But here’s how the Associated Press headlined *their* piece:

“DeLay Organization Indicted in Texas.”

Now *that*, my friends, is Bush/GOP Derangement Syndrome in action.

Memo to the AP:

Shine on you crazy diamonds.