Sudan and the elections
Bookworm on May 15 2008 at 8:21 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
I purposely didn’t read the news stories headlined “McCain’s wife sells off” something, something, something Sudan. I knew what I’d find there, once I got passed that smear headline implying that McCain & Co. are profiting off of people’s misery in Africa. The actual facts would show that Mrs. McCain is a wealthy woman who has assets invested all over the place, and by some chain of investments, there’s a tie to Sudan. Heck, I own Fidelity Mutual Funds and I’m sure that my funds make money through investments in lots of things that would disturb me if I looked too closely.
Unlike me, Terry Trippany (who hosts Webloggin and is one of my valued friends) did take the time, not only to read the article, but to consider its implications for everyone — Democratic and Republican — in the current election:
It’s a strange one sided sort of game the Associated Press is playing in its latest attack against John McCain. AP writer Jim Kuhnhenn is applying a six degrees of separation style standard in trying to accuse John McCain of investing in the Sudan because his wife owned some mutual funds that had holdings in an Indian company that allegedly does business in the Sudan. The far left has picked up on this “AP newsbreak” as evidenced by its front page status at The Huffington Post.
So I decided to play the game myself by looking at the mainstream media’s favorite target of obsessive adulation, Barack Obama. My my, would you look at that? When I applied the McCain standard to Barack Obama I quickly discovered that Obama’s top contributors are being targeted by activists that are targeting financial companies to divest in the Sudan. Surprised?
You can — and should — read all the details here. What Terry shows is that AP’s outrage is surprisingly one sided because, if one uses the attenuated approach AP applies to show a McCain taint, Obama’s top contributors have money equally tainted by Sudanese blood.
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That AP piece can be, with charity, called infantile. The comments over at the Huffpo site are astounding. I shudder to think that some of those commenters actually vote.
The Associated Press is like the OPEC of the media world. Many articles and anti-American propaganda were first sent by the AP via wired stories, which ultimately came from stringers or those “associated with the press”, which meant they came from enemy propaganda organizations, centrally organized or grassroots based.
When news orgs like the NYTimes or Fox News can’t get a local reporter on a certain story, or if the AP broke that story first, then what you have is a 1000 repetitions of a wire story sent by the AP. And guess what that wire story is almost always about when it concerns America? America being a bad bad dog that needs to be chastised, of course.