A.P. gets an "F"
The original title for this post, was "THE AP SUCKS!!!" It has been changed, but I still feel that way.
In reporting on Bush gains in battleground states, AP Writer Tom Raum, gives a classic example of why this blog, and so many others, refuse to take anything the AP says at face value.
Raum begins benignly enough in discussing (not reporting) the widening gap between President Bush and John Kerry and how it has affected the campaigns and their plans for battleground states. While benign, it didn't strike me as impartial.
Then it hits me....
"The race in Florida, which decided the 2000 contest when it was put in Bush's column by a Supreme Court ruling, was even in polls conducted just before the convention."No way did a reporter for the AP have the gall to report that Florida was put in Bush's column by a Supreme Court ruling. Florida was put in Bush's column by a 537 votes.
I shouldn't be surprised, or bothered by the lack of reporting here, or by the constant selling of untruths. Yet I am. Tom Raum, like Dan Rather, has been around a long time, since 1973, perhaps it has been too long.
