Reply #25: Frick Fournier and the horse he fricked in on. His crap is getting old:

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Reporters, Like Bees and Dogs, Can Smell Fear
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 3 May 2004 03:45 PM

Democrats are afraid. We know ... because the Associated Press's Ron Fournier told us so on Friday, in a "newsview" piece headlined, "Dems Fear Kerry Looks Like Gore." And Adam Nagourney told us once again on Sunday in a New York Times piece titled, "Kerry Struggling to Find a Theme, Democrats Fear."

According to Fournier, "Democratic leaders" fear that Kerry is "getting 'Gored,'" that Republicans are successfully painting Kerry as a flip-flopper in the same way they painted Al Gore a "serial exaggerator" in 2000. For Nagourney, it is Kerry's "trouble in settling on a defining theme" that has "Democratic party officials" living in fear, along with the "pace of his advertising and his progress in setting up field organizations in battleground states." ~snip~

http://www.cjr.org/politics/reporters_like_bees_and_dogs_c.php


Fournier's Amnesia
y Thomas Lang Thu 18 Mar 2004 02:37 PM

Via Atrios, we've spotted the Associated Press' Ron Fournier writing revisionist history about his own coverage of Al Gore's 2000 campaign.

Yesterday, in a story on truth vs. distortion thus far in the 2004 campaign, Fournier wrote: "Few of assertions are patently wrong; most reside in the murky gray area between correct and incorrect -- a rhetorical margin of error. Just as Bush convinced many Americans in 2000 that Democrat Al Gore fabricated his biography and record, Bush and Kerry hope to open a credibility gap."

A little research, however, points out that Bush had a little help in convincing some voters that Al Gore had fabricated his biography and record in 2000 -- from, among others, Ron Fournier. ~snip~

http://www.cjr.org/politics/fourniers_amnesia.php