Gee, LB, you think the AP is biased toward the left? Got any proof?
I read the entire article, looked pretty even sided to me, skewered the Repubs as well as the Dems on their inaccuracies.
Lots of what both said is up to interpretation...for example:
SAN ANTONIO MAYOR JULIAN CASTRO: "Despite incredible odds and united Republican opposition our president took action. And now we've seen 4.5 million new jobs."
While that figure has become a White House talking point, it's only part of the story. It's a cherry-picked number that refers just to private sector jobs created in the last 29 months, from the trough of the recession through July. Governments - especially state and local ones - have continued shedding jobs.
The economy lost 8.8 million jobs from the time employment peaked in January 2008 until it hit bottom in February 2010. Between then and this July - the most recent month for which there are figures - just 4 million jobs have been recovered. Never since World War II has the economy been so slow to recover all the jobs lost in a downturn.
I can see both sides...total losses=8.8 million....BUT, as Castro said, 4 million have been recovered....no thanks to the "Party of NO", which has decided it will not work with the current POTUS. That's a hard line that may be the wrong one to draw in the sand, if you get my drift.
...and this:
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID: "We can only imagine what new secrets would be revealed if he showed the American people a dozen years of tax returns like his father did.... Mitt Romney says we should take his word that he paid his fair share. His word? His word? Trust comes from transparency, and Mitt Romney comes up short on both."
THE FACTS: Reid has challenged Romney on his tax returns before, but this time Reid omitted an earlier charge that over the past decade, there were some years when Romney paid no taxes - an uncorroborated claim that Romney insists is false.
Romney has released just one tax return, from 2010 and says he'll release his 2011 return once it's finished. He has steadfastly declined to make more than two years available.
Gotta give Reid credit for abandoning the assertion that there were some years where Romney paid no taxes at all....but, then, Romney is most assuredly hiding something by refusing to release any more than the last two (yes, I KNOW that's all that's required by law). Where there's smoke, there's fire, and Romney's refusal to release any more than the minimum required by law, which has not been the practice followed by other candidates, including Romney's own father, sure smells like a smoke-screen to me...and, I would wager, to the rest of the politically sentient population (TEA partiers don't fall into the politically sentient category, IMHO, only the politically rabid category).
The AP is the least biased of the news organizations....sure would like to see you offer some difinitive proof that they are leftist, but I'm not holding my breath, LB, you've proven in the past that you won't answer these sort of questions b/c you know you'll look like the fool you are. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, and yours has been somewhat cowardly (much like a cowardly hit-and-run driver, you make an accusation and then run from the responsibility to support it) in this regard (again, IMHO).....
Doug
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