WTF is with this AP Story on Yahoo?

[Yollam]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060603/ap_on_go_co/democratic_chairmen

Prospective Democratic chairs all liberal
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 3, 12:46 PM ET
WASHINGTON - If the chips fall right for Democrats and their party seizes control of the House, President Bush's agenda on Capitol Hill would fall into the hands of some of his most dogged opponents.

It's not just would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, but a boatload of Democrats newly running committees who would determine what legislation gets debated and which programs and agencies get scrutiny.

So who are the chairmen to be?

_a Polish-American lawyer with a reputation for making witnesses quiver.

_a die-hard liberal from New York's Harlem with 35 years in the House.

_a free-spending progressive from Wausau, Wis.

_one of the few remaining "Watergate babies" swept into Congress in 1974.





WTF? Did the RNC write this report? Out of the people in this story, only Rangel could be characterized as being even slightly left of center, the rest are centrist traditional democrats (as opposed to neocon or right-wing DLC types)

And I know they're not calling Pelosi a liberal...


This report seems like a threat from the RNC - "Give the dems a majority and they'll nationalize all industry and organize you into worker collectives!!! WAAHH!!"

[MadMaddie]

1. Sounds like Rovian tactics...throw some fear of Dems actually

doing the job Congress is supposed to be doing.....and throwing more Republicans in jail...

[idgiehkt]

2. lol,

wow, they can say 'Polish-American' and 'lawyer' but they can't say black. Pretty sneaky, so I'd bet anything the RNC is behind it, lol


'free-spending'...that one is rich. What it the projected deficit now; is it 7 trillion, or 8?

[Yollam]

3. That caught my eye, too.

I can't believe they're trying to call THAT kettle black.

[rusty_parts2001]

7. I can't wait....

Dave Obey, Charles Rangel, and John Conyers laying the subpoenas on the Bush Crime Family. Unfortunately for W, he is no Michael Corleone.

[deadparrot]

4. You wouldn't call Conyers a liberal?

;)

[marmar]

9. Yup. Conyers is definitely left-of-center...

... and a hero.

:patriot:

[Yollam]

13. Ummm...I did call him a liberal...

...he's hardly a far-out lefty, though.

He's been tied to ultra-right-wing cult leader Sun Myung Moon, BTW.


http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/04/rangel-letter-recognizes-far-right.html

[deadparrot]

19. Are you getting Conyers confused with Rangel?

I don't see anything about Conyers in your OP, and the link you provided concerns Rangel, not Conyers.

[Yollam]

21. The AP Story talks about Rangel, not Conyers.

Conyers is from Michigan, not Harlem.

And there are no Conyers-Moon links that I know of.


I actually think highly of Rangel, too, all the more reason I was puzzled when he honored the krazy kult leader.

[deadparrot]

22. It talks about Conyers, further down in the article.

I don't know where you got the impression that I believed that Conyers was from New York, because I don't think I ever claimed that. :shrug:

[Yollam]

23. Never mind, duh.

My internalized racism is probably Freudally slipping.

I did confuse the two. Sorry.


I consider Conyers to be a centrist in a far-right-wing nation, but I guess by today's standards, he'd be called a liberal - at least he has a spine.

[azurnoir]

5. At this point

alot of people might not mind (being organized), at least they'd probably make a living wage and their bosses wouldn't be ?000 X theirs

[marmar]

6. I agree, WTF!!! What a B.S. article, with an agenda...

Love how they toss the babysitting nugget in about Conyers. What a load of bollocks! :grr:

[Placebo]

8. This reads like a GOP.com ACTION ALERT e-mail...

or some such BS.

[rodeodance]

10. "unrelenting string of liberal Democrats" geesh!

....In a potential power switch between the parties, more than an unrelenting string of liberal Democrats are positioned to take over committees.

Rep. Collin Peterson (news, bio, voting record) of Minnesota, who would run the Agriculture Committee, is anti-abortion and as pro-gun as practically anyone in the House. Rep. Ike Skelton (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri is a longtime hawk in line to lead the Armed Services Committee.

Black lawmakers would run major committees.

Besides Rangel, there is Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, in line for the top spot on the Judiciary Committee; Rep. Bennie Thompson (news, bio, voting record) of Mississippi on the
Homeland Security Committee; and Rep. Alcee Hastings (news, bio, voting record) of Florida at the Intelligence Committee.

Conyers has been accused by former aides of misusing his office by turning them into baby sitters for his children. He is the prime sponsor of a resolution that seeks to investigate grounds for possible impeachment of Bush over the war in
Iraq.

[rodeodance]

11. the word liberal is used nine beautiful times in the article.

[Doctor_J]

26. and "left" 4 times

I especially like "Black lawmakers would run major committees"

Oh, no, not that!

:scared:

[AJ9000]

32. "...I especially like "Black lawmakers would run major committees"

Translation: You don't want a bunch of niggers running part of the government do you?

Typical Rep Southern strategy crap.

This shows how far the corporate media has fallen, and how severe the conservative bias really is.

[Flubadubya]

12. "Black lawmakers would run major committees. "

This one sentence stands alone as a single paragraph... oooh, it's that important, and that scary, isn't it?!:scared:

What racist, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal wrote this hit piece anyway? Just thoroughly disgusting, that's all I can say. :puke:

[me b zola]

27. WTF????

I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor, speechless. Are they calling the rw racist base to arms? Are they implying that Black lawmakers are incapable to *run* a committee? :wtf:

[burythehatchet]

14. If you all haven't caught up to AP, this should do it

[depakid]

15. Run some searches on the writer

and you'll see that this is not the first time Andrew Taylor has spammed the wire services with far right spin....

[originalpckelly]

16. Freeper Alert! List of stories Andrew Taylor has written:

http://www.pelicanfile.com/reporter.cfm?ReporterID=5686

I wonder if he is pulling a Talon News-Jeff Gannon thing? We should start investigating this.

[AX10]

28. He sounds like another Gannon to me.

:argh:

[bklyncowgirl]

17. Lazy bastards repeated a GOP press release?

Sure sounds like it.

[AJ9000]

33. That may be it. Pitiful. n/t

[conflictgirl]

18. Liberal media, my ass!

I read it to my husband because it just seemed like an incredibly weird, pointless article. The whole thing can be summed up like this: :wtf:

That was really an incredible piece of propaganda. Guess the journalists the Bush administration is paying are getting more transparent.

[Nimrod2005]

20. Karl Rove wrote this....Stay focused.

I am telling you, unless and until we call the attack dogs to duty, we are not going to win.

[originalpckelly]

24. Look at what freeperville had to say about this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642889/posts

It resonated so well with them. No questions or complaints at all about the article. Makes me sure Mr. Taylor is a freeper.

I wonder if he is a real person, I mean Andrew Taylor? Andy Taylor? We definitely need to look into this matter. He might very be pulling a Jeff Gannon on us. Only this is much more serious because the AP is a very reputable news organization.

[Guaranteed]

29. Yup- has to be a fictitious name. nt

[originalpckelly]

31. There are quite a few people with it, most are obviously after...

The Andy Griffith Show.

[gatorboy]

25. Check this one out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1336925&mesg_id=1336925

Ahhhh, the liberal media....

[OnionPatch]

30. It almost sounds like a parody

Are they serious? "Blacks heading up committees?" Have we stepped back into 1960 or is this a spoof?

[AJ9000]

34. I just pointed this out to mediamatters.org We'll see if they do anything

with it.