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Agnosticsherbet

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31. If your name was Mohammed, putting a bug up your but to listen for terrorist farts...

Sun May 19, 2013, 03:17 PM

May 2013

simply because of your name would be an unpardonable violation of your rights.

Even a declawed, defanged, cowed, lapdog press has rights. The name doesn't matter. When it is necessary to investigate them, it should be done with tweezers instead of a lasso. The investigation was too broad, and since they did not catch the leaker anyway, it was poorly done.

If Bush did this to MSNBC we would have been up in arms. The name of the News organization and whether they are worth a bucket of warm shit should be irrelevant.

Rather than dump AP because they are a lousy news organization we need to insist that the rights of news organizations be respected.

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Why I don't give a damn about the AP: [View all] hedgehog May 2013 OP

I'm with you. I posted a link about this earlier so that others could understand the... Little Star May 2013 #1

Add to it that the AP knows the leak is being investigated - hedgehog May 2013 #4

thanks for the link, Little Star.. I posted the Vid in Cha May 2013 #13

TY Little Star May 2013 #18

Just watched it! Very good, thank you! Cha May 2013 #15

K&R Whisp May 2013 #2

news organizations have been supine as the security state has grown over the last few decades KG May 2013 #3

this is just pathetic and so wrong cali May 2013 #5

+1. snot May 2013 #6

I care ProSense May 2013 #7

I care about media hypocrisy, and I care about what happened, BUT closeupready May 2013 #9

Tools get used. bemildred May 2013 #8

AP's whoredom is irrelevant. Orsino May 2013 #10

It wasn't just the leaker BainsBane May 2013 #12

It is not fake by any means. Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 #25

This is the circus without the bread. No stories in the public interest allowed. freshwest May 2013 #11

yes, and when the precedent is used against journalists you think are doing a good job, what will HiPointDem May 2013 #14

the White House wants the Leaker who exposed Cha May 2013 #16

Thanks go to Scuba! hedgehog May 2013 #19

Yeah, Scuba, too.. I Cha May 2013 #20

You do relise that "Leaks" are a major tool for the Press. Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 #17

My objection is that the press obsession with leaks has reduced it hedgehog May 2013 #21

The do, or I should say, try to. Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 #22

Good advice! hedgehog May 2013 #24

So, just screw the press, generally? DirkGently May 2013 #23

+10000 dkf May 2013 #27

+1000 Anansi1171 May 2013 #26

The AP is getting the karma it built up under the GWB years. Rex May 2013 #28

Any source with a legitimate story will always get it out. bluedigger May 2013 #29

Tell you what nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #30

No one is stopping you nor anyone else from doing that. randome May 2013 #32

If your name was Mohammed, putting a bug up your but to listen for terrorist farts... Agnosticsherbet May 2013 #31