AP's Nedra Pickler slams Kerry for having money, again

[Sparkly]

Kerry Vacations With Wealthy in Nantucket

16 minutes ago

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

NANTUCKET, Mass. - After a week of campaigning for the less fortunate, John Kerry (news - web sites) went on vacation with the fabulously wealthy.

Kerry is a rich man who promotes the Democratic ideal that government should do more to help the poor.

Could SNL even make this stuff up? It's not enough for the AP to create a sinister-sounding fundraising scandal (Kerry "took money from an arrested figure"), our Ms. Pickler has to get in her daily digs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=1&u=/ap/20040620/ap_on_el_pr/kerry

[JI7]

1. and Bush is a rich guy who thinks govt should do more for rich

[Sparkly]

2. Precisely!

I guess that's okay though, since they don't consider it worth pointing out in near-daily articles.

[Fenris]

3. What a hilarious name!

I imagine she looks like this:

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Yeah, let's make fun of the ugly woman

Couldn't you find a fat person?

--bkl

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. No Actually She Looks Like This

[TXDemGal]

16. Looks like she stole Jim Trafficant's rug

and dyed it blonde.

With a name like Nedra Pickler, you had to know she was a wingnut.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. WTF?!? I just read this--is this actually supposed to be NEWS as opposed

to an obvious SLAM on Kerry and suck up to Bush?

'Like Kerry, President Bush (news - web sites) is a Yale graduate who has benefited from his wealth and family connections. But Bush spends his down time as more of an everyman, preferring to spend vacations at his Texas ranch clearing brush.


"Most Americans don't sit in Martha's Vineyard, swilling white wine," he said at the ranch two years ago. '

:wtf:

[AndyTiedye]

5. Kerry Obviously Has Better Taste

and if he doesn't let the imagemongers choose his vacations for him,
so much the better!

[Gloria]

6. Has she ever heard of "noblesse oblige"??? Heck, has she ever

heard of Ted Kennedy...who is also "rich" but spends his time speaking to social issues that affect the average person?

Why not a follow up story on how rich Bushco is...and how little money they give to charity??

Frankly, Kerry should stay away from boats, water skis, snowmobiles, etc. before they do a "Bush I on jetskis" picture that could sink him!

Maybe stay away from cash registers, too.

Maybe a ballpark is a safe place, preferably in the bleachers....

[sendero]

7. these folks..

.... talk out of all sides of their ass. If a Rep is rich, he is a hardworking entrepreneur providing jobs for the masses, a pillar of the community even if all his taxes are sheltered.

But a rich Democrat? Well, the outrage.

[trumad]

9. Fucking horrible reporter

Does she mention that Bush's Ranch is nothing more than a prop bought 2 weeks before his campaign started..... She's a major media Ho!

[madfloridian]

10. She did this to Dean, we asked folks not to quote her, to help us fight it

It got so ugly. It is what she does, it is why she lives.

I was told by a few to quit being so defensive about Dean at the time. I hate to say I told you so, but she will continue until you organize to fight her.

It is why she is there. She sure got quoted here a lot then.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. It irks me that so many of our politicians are rich, but

if we _have_ to have rich folk running the show, I'd rather have a Kerry or a Kennedy than a *.

[emulatorloo]

12. Guess she never heard of FDR or JFK, or maybe she just "forgot. . ."

EOM

[fujiyama]

14. The NYT has some of these hacks also

Adam Nagorney for example. His only purpose is to trash Kerry.

It's bad when even AP feeds sound like Bush propaganda.

[Zorra]

15. "Nedra Pickler Syndrome"?

I found this post on another website, and thought "Nedra Pickler Syndrome" could be used as a great descriptive journalistic expression.

Apparently we aren't the only ones that notice Nedra Pickler's lame propaganda.

"It's called Nedra Pickler syndrome, after a journalist who writes in precisely that manner. A search on ATrios should reveal many instances. Stuff like, "John Kerry crticised the President for mishandling Iraq after the war, but completely failed to mention his own failure to pass any meaningful health legislation." The old name is probably non sequitir."

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