AP Gives Anti-War Dems Cover Over Ignoring Military Budget Debate

Published: September 18, 2007, 5:49 am

Tags: iraq war, media bias debate, john murtha, the associated press, journalistic issues

This particular AP report is an interesting study in how the AP subtly backs the Democrats in their efforts to undermine the war effort and how they present the GOP as somehow lacking all support or being merely a blocking force in Congress instead of actually representing their constituent's wishes. In the AP's stylebook, Republican = bad and Democrat = good. In this case, funding for the troops is presented like an average fight over tax money and only the Demos side is discussed with no GOP views offered in the story. Let's start with the very first paragraph of the story titled Democrats to Wait on War Funding Debate. WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats are not expected to take up President Bush's war spending request until November, giving them time to calculate their next move and see if Republican support for his policies deteriorates. Well, now, see the good news? The Dems have a strategy! But, this strategy consists of depriving our soldiers of the funds they need to keep moving

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