Dear AP, do you actually read the legislation you write about?

[babylonsister]

http://www.americablog.com/2007/07/publish-wed-dear-ap-do-you-actually.html

Dear AP, do you actually read the legislation you write about?
by John Aravosis (DC) ·


The Associated Press bought Sen. Salazar's fake "Iraq Study Group" bill hook, line and sinker. Here's how AP describes the bill, then read what the bill actually says:

Also expected to come to a vote in the next two weeks is a plan to place into law recommendations from last winter's report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group. The group called for removing all combat brigades not needed for training, force protection and counterterrorism by March 31, 2008.

No, the bill is "sense of Congress" legislation. It doesn't detail anything that HAS to happen, it simply expresses Congress' wish that things be done in a certain way. And if they aren't done that way, oh well. This legislation has no more impact than National Ice Cream Day, and for AP to suggest that this somehow implements the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group is absurd. AP could have read just page 3 of the bill, the one where it says that the Iraq Study Group did NOT set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. That directly contradicts AP's own assertion that the Group did in fact call for such a withdrawal by next March. The legislation not only has no teeth, it doesn't even correspond to the Iraq Study Group's own recommendations.

Come on, AP, don't just repeat what people tell you. Everyone lies.

[Captain Hilts]

1. In the past year, AP has just tanked in quality. It's like reading Wikipedia. nt

[emulatorloo]

2. More like reading Karl Rove's Blast Faxes and Dan Bartlett's Press Releases eom

[Captain Hilts]

3. Yes, clearly a right-wing crank is editing them now. They're masked opinion pieces. nt

[Tsiyu]

4. We truly are an "instant gratification" society

Reading past the first sentence makes us weary.

Very soon I expect we'll just be getting all our news in pictures.