'Keep up the fight,' Top AP editor once wrote Rove

[IDemo]

Nick Juliano
Published: Monday July 14, 2008

Chummy correspondence with Fournier revealed in Tillman investigation

In its investigation of the misleading accounts that initially surrounded Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch's rescue the House Oversight Committee on Monday shed some light on the White House's press-management apparatus and the chummy relationship between Karl Rove and AP scribe Ron Fournier.

The report details the Bush administration's exploitation of Tillman's death and suppression of evidence that the former football pro who joined the Army Rangers after 9/11 was killed by friendly fire. In the day's after Tillman's death, on April 22, 2004, the committee examined e-mails from the White House's communications team, including some exchanges with reporters.

Commentators and reporters contacted the White House to offer advice. For example, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan e-mailed the White House’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, Peter Wehner, recommending that he “find out what faith Tillman practiced and have the president go by that church and light a candle or say a prayer.” Karl Rove exchanged e-mails about Pat Tillman with Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, under the subject line “H-E-R-O.” In response to Mr. Fournier’s e-mail, Mr. Rove asked, “How does our country continue to produce men and women like this,” to which Mr. Fournier replied, “The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight.”

White House staff exchanged more than 200 e-mails concerning Tillman's death, according to the Oversight Committee report.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Keep_up_fight_Top_AP_editor_0714.html

[EFerrari]

1. Authorized Propaganda exposed.

:shrug:

[NJCher]

26. Exposed: Fournier

Cher

[CottonBear]

2. "...But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish." Pat didn't flourish. He died.

:(

[Newsjock]

3. Fournier's bias is becoming more clear

And couple that with the new report in Politico about how Fournier is to blame for most of the crappy reporting we're now seeing out of the AP's Washington bureau:

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1DA639E4-3048-5C12-0010F30E475931F7

[Rex]

4. Assholes like this do huge damage to the country. Like the NYT sitting on a story for a year.

Then to find out the link is insano garbage about God and the All American Man. This country is FUCKED.

[EFerrari]

13. AP sat Ohio. We know that. We are fucked if we rely on them. n/t

[kenny blankenship]

5. The Lord also maketh some real scumbags, Mr. Fournier

and evidently you're one of them. Or maybe you're just a self-made scumbag.

[trof]

6. Rove and Pat Tillman?

Is there ANYTHING Rove didn't have a tentacle in?
jeez

[Overseas]

7. So Ron Fournier is another correspondent for the Bush Empire.

He can join the throng. Guess the BFEE pays well.

[SpiralHawk]

24. AP has joined the propaganda crap heap, with FAUX and the other

corporate Homelander Propaganda Organs.

I weep for America.

[sharp_stick]

8. only the great and free countries allow them to flourish

Damned near puked all over the floor after reading that line. What a disgusting little GOP shit that Fournier is.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Sick. Just sick. What an incestuous relationship. There was no chance

that the truth about anything concerning this administration was going to get out until it was too late. The press didn't just fall down on the job, it jumped into bed with BushCo.

[RedLetterRev]

31. ...and opened its lovin' arms and lovin' legs n/t

[liberal1973]

10. This un-American so-called reporter is a freeper.

Yeah the AP reporters are coming off like Washington Times reporters/hacks.

[IDemo]

11. The Department of Information Services has arrived

[elehhhhna]

12. The Noonan thing bugs me more than the a$$kissing Fournier email...

Does she fashion herself an advisor to the Bushler? CREE-PY!

[ljm2002]

20. Yes, that was my reaction also... n/t

[road2000]

32. Just another of her nauseating points of light. n/t

[tanyev]

14. If only Peggy Nooner's head had exploded when she found out Tillman didn't practice any faith.

[truedelphi]

15. Here's another milestone article regarding the corruption of the AP

Please check it out

http://tinyurl.com/6mdhl3

[Mythsaje]

16. Yes, by all means, let's all sit around and bitch about the corp(se) media...

or, better yet, "Just don't watch it."

I'm sure things will get better any time now.

[Tutonic]

17. Mr. Fournier is a Fool. And Karl Rove is still a fat little PIGMAN

"Only the great and free countries allow then to flourish" Flourish? But, but, but Tillman is dead Mr. Fournier. And where are these "great and free countries that you sepak of?

"Keep up the fight." Karl Rove never served a day in his life. So what struggle, battle or conflict are you referring to?

The press accuse Obama of being Elite. Somebody should tell these morons that they are not witty, erudite or worth reading.

[Tutonic]

18. I can't believe that Karl Rove actually got paid for juvenile

tricks like this. GW should have paid him in pig slop or some kind of snack--that his fat ass would really enjoy.

[Arugula Latte]

19. HEY-- You! Yes, YOU, Mainstream Media Bushco Whores:

You SUCK and we are on to you and your whoring ways.

You are frickin' JOKES. You are not journalists. You are two-bit shills.

[Botany]

21. They are whores

Please excuse my term .... any whore is so much better than these shits

[lurky]

22. Busted!

His "reporting" has been hopelessly biased for ages. It's nice to see what we all know confirmed, however.

[DeSwiss]

23. It would seem....

...that KKKarl is also stealing his lines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri#Plot">"Where do we get such men?" is the line spoken at the very end of movie: "The Bridges At Toko-Ri." Which is odd seeing how the Repukers hate-on Hollywood all the time on behalf of the Religious-Right boys and their "Family Values."

- Next up, lines spoken by Karl Rove from The Godfather III: "Sir, I respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds...."

K&R!!!

[The Wizard]

25. Yeah the GOP hates Hollywood

like they hate Reagan, Arnold, and Sonny Bono................

[peacetalksforall]

27. And it's not just AP - look at these two paragraph from the Helen Thomas bio on Wiki re UPI.

"On May 17, 2000, after fifty-seven years working with the organization, Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by News World Communications Inc., a company founded and controlled by Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon. She later described the change in ownership as "a bridge too far".<2><3>

Less than two months later, she joined Hearst Newspapers as a columnist, writing on national affairs and the White House."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas

And we're supposed to believe stuff coming from these people?

Which were the acronyms that you first heard related to news releases? AP? UPI?

All five networks. Two news services.

A person can skip right over any polling they do.

[LynnTheDem]

28. Sick fucks.

Motherfucking sick creeps.

[Clark2008]

29. I knew it.

I constantly complained about Fournier's coverage of Wes Clark - about how he's misconstrue Clark's actions, how he'd quote Clark out of context and how he generally missed the mark.

Now, I know why.

[harmonicon]

30. will more people now admit that the AP has become a right wing propaganda tool? nt