Miscellaneous.

The Associated Press tries to jealously guard its stories pilfered from other sources by attempting to crack down on bloggers pilfering from THEIR reports.

The AP wants to create guidelines for bloggers to use their reports without them going overboard.

Of course, AP goes around and looks at blogs for content for their news stories, but the bloggers aren't asking AP to acknowledge them.

You have to read the article; I am not going to post excerpts.
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The latest on the Iowa floods is here.
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One of the pit bulls rescued in the Vick case is now helping cancer patients:


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Oh, Bullshit.

AP needs an enema to remove all of the bullshit lodged in its corporate gut.

Note the fuzzy math it employs to claim Obama has the nomination. He doesn't; the superdelegates don't count.

Bill and Hillary Clinton must really be appalled at the media shilling of this loser.

The VP Rumors

are total bullshit:

Response to VP Inquiry

Today on a conference call with New York legislators, Senator Clinton was asked whether she was open to the idea of running as Vice-President and repeated what she has said before: she would do whatever she could to ensure that Democrats take the White House back and defeat John McCain.

AP is 0 for 3.

By the way, Obama is NOT the nominee; the superdelegates can't do anything until August. Before then anything could happen and likely will. Unless Hillary Clinton withdraws, Obama is NOT the nominee. Period.

Media Bias.

Pravda is alive and well and is in the form of Associated Press.

The media, in the tank for the GOP, are trying so hard to force Clinton out of the race, let alone there being any chance for a brokered convention. How anybody fails to see this is beyond me.

More spin as the MSNBC headline reads: "BREAKING NEWS: Clinton tells N.Y. lawmakers she's open to being Obama's VP candidate."

Terry McAuliffe

has just denied this AP report which claims Hillary Clinton will drop out of the race tonight.

The media are assholes. Anything to depress turnout in the last two contests.






Speaking of media assholes, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum (pictured) has been labeled a "scumbag" by former president Bill Clinton, despite the fact Purdum is married to his former press secretary, Dee Dee Myers.

"That's all right-- he's still a scumbag," Clinton said. " Let me tell ya-- he's one of the guys -- he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy-- can't help it."

Purdum's piece, featured in this month's edition of Vanity Fair, included former advisers criticizing former President Clinton for bringing negative attention to Hillary Clinton's candidacy and for surrounding himself with friends who might discredit her campaign.

The former president's tirade continued:

"The editor of Esquire-- he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."

"You know he didn't use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's just the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do-- he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain-- maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it."

And it isn't really media bias for Obama that's driving it; it's media bias for JOHN McCAIN so McCain has no real opposition against him in the fall. It's also retaliation by the media for failing to run the Clintons out of Washington in the 1990s. Call it being "Gored," for the media bias against Al Gore was also driven by Clinton hatred.

You can hear the audio of him on the rope line talking about it at the link. Or else you can listen to the audio on YouTube: