The Associated (with terrorists) Press
posted at 9:44 am on September 21, 2006 by Bryan
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Outstanding reporting Michelle! The AP and Al-Reuters need more light shined on them. Many, many thanks.
MT on September 21, 2006 at 9:59 AM
Luv ya Michelle, great report… but the word “cache” is pronounced like “cash.” Who can ever tell with French words. God is in the details. :-)
Mojave Mark on September 21, 2006 at 10:06 AM
Michelle,
How low can the mainstream media go? It’s no secret that they’ve been working day and night to damage the war effort and the president for political gain. But for an American news agency to actually hire and then defend an Al Qaeda propagandist is unconscionable. It seems that the line between the MSM and Al Jazeera gets blurrier every day.
Anyway, great job bringing this to light… A beautiful woman speaking the truth. I’ll take that over the View or the Today Show any day!
john98 on September 21, 2006 at 10:45 AM
Reuters: We stage fake terrorist attacks.
AP: We stage real terrorist attacks.
dinasour on September 21, 2006 at 10:51 AM
The A.P. trying to intimidate Michelle Malkin.
What a laugh.
Gonna haveta ask A.P. how it feels to be chewed up and spit out.
Lawrence on September 21, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Astounding. Not that its a surprise that people like Bilal Hussein exist inside major news organizations… but the manner in which the story is handled.
If the MM discovers information which will damage Western Civilizations side of the war effort and, subsequently American security, they rush to press faster than you can say, “Jihad!”
But when information comes out which will damage their image and possibly open some eyes to media bias, they drag their feet for 5 months becuase “work[ing] quietly” is the “best approach.”
Oy vey.
Excellent Vent. Keep up the great work.
12thman on September 21, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Michelle;
What is so worrisome is that these news agencies’ stories are blindly picked up by thousands of outlets everyday and run in newspapers and tv around the world. Someone has got to police these organizations. I can’t think of a better person than you. Don’t let them distract you from holding their feet to the fire. We will never see this kind of reporting on the MSM. Great Vent!
d1carter on September 21, 2006 at 11:12 AM
I’m wondering if there could be legal ramifications against AP. If they knew what Hilal was up to and they continued to let him “work” for them as a photographer, then they essentially provided him cover and thus aid and comfort to the enemy.
It’s certainly worth an investigation by the proper authorities.
thirteen28 on September 21, 2006 at 11:24 AM
It is mindboggling that this is not a national scandal! Where is the crusade for truth and justice, muckraking spirit in the mainstream media? It appears it is reserved for bogus outrages such as Plamegate. Here, we have an example of mainstream media protecting one of its own.
One cannot be too thankful that the blogasphere exists and that intrepid bloggers like Michelle Malkin are exposing the mendacity, dishonestry and disloyalty of the mainstream press, which has frankly became a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party and America’s enemies.
ptolemy on September 21, 2006 at 11:31 AM
Outstanding vent. Thank you Michelle.
Yet more proof that thinking people cannot trust the MSM for accuracy in the reporting of current events. The blogosphere is an essential source of truth.
speed647 on September 21, 2006 at 11:51 AM
It’s amazing to me just how far gone the ethics of major media organizations are. My wife studied journalism in college, and her professor told all the students that in a time of war, their job was to be cheerleaders for the US. She (the prof) said this in the ’90s, and cited WW2 as an example, and was by no means a conservative. Apparently the prof was out of touch or something. Jeez!
I agree with thirteen28 above as well. How long before someone investigates these new companies for treason? Freedom of the press is designed to prevent the government from jailing those who publish or speak against it, but not to protect those who would put the citizenry of this country in danger.
Jezla on September 21, 2006 at 12:01 PM
This demand to release him is ridiculous. Shall I use the beloved Geneva Conventions to prove it:
If he had close contact and was obviously working as a “war correspondent” with them he can be taken in to custody, add in the explosives and that is even more reason to take him in. Eventually we can send him to trial OR release him… AT THE END OF HOSTILITIES!
mdconservative on September 21, 2006 at 12:40 PM
It was just a short time ago that we were remembering the flag raising on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Reporters like Ernie Pyle and even Walter Cronkite acted to support US troops and our victory. I do find it interesting to look at books to see how WWII was seen from the other side…BUT… I don’t want to spend 25 cents to buy a newspaper that helps support an AP photographer who is working to kill our troops. And I’m sorry, an insurgent roadblock has no legitimacy. These are thugs that need to be eliminated, not given support by AP.
mkstach on September 21, 2006 at 3:06 PM
Once again, we should not be surprised at this revelation. Thank you Michelle for another great vent.
Michelle states responsible journalism and citizenry at the end of her vent. Well, I reckon that depends on which side a journalist feels that he/she is on. Clearly and sadly, we have seen (for the most part) who the mainstream media feels responsible to, and perhaps where they feel they are citizens of. As long as the mainstream media feel that ANY defeat of the terrorists is only a victory for George Bush, then this is going to be a difficult war to win.
And finally, never let it be said that Michelle and her HotAir staff does not serve our country well be reporting these matters to us, BECAUSE MICHELLE DOES INDEED SERVE US WELL. If she is wrong about an issue, then it will be pointed out. If she has not proven her point about an issue, then it will be pointed out. And that is a hell of a lot flaming better than what the mainstream media has been dishing out to us.
The False Dervish on September 21, 2006 at 3:22 PM
Whoops! I meant to type serve our country well BYreporting these matters to us.
Sorry about the typo. My bad!
The False Dervish on September 21, 2006 at 3:25 PM
For most of my adult life, basically, I have taken it for granted that the AP, Reuters, and all the other “reputable” major TV network news agencies have delivered the news in a fair and -detached- manner, for the most part. Just the facts, and nothing but the facts, with little slant, for the most part. Sometimes there were what I accepted as “erroneous errors”, as they were explained away by the news agencies, but all in all I have always trusted the “trusted” news agencies, for the most part. Boy was I wrong, and they all prove it more & more each and every day.
I assume nothing about any news agencies of any caliber any longer. I have become so disgusted, so jaded about “the news”, that I can no longer trust any of them. CBS’s Rathergate, Reutersgate, The Associated Press’ bombastic drivel, CNN’s unending “oopsy” television mistakes and lies… etcetera ad nauseum! There are too many to possibly mention them all from ALL the news wires and major news networks. Suffice it to say, the print media’s just as bad… unfit to wipe my a** with.
The cover-up’s, bias, propoganda, and the willingness for all the news agencies to air/print just about anything feasible to make a buck and further their own agenda(s) has numbed me to just about anything any of them have to say unless they’re all reporting the same thing and it’s all unanimous.
SilverStar830 on September 21, 2006 at 3:34 PM
How DARE you question their patriotism!!!!
hahahahahahahaha
wcarr on September 21, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Problem is, the ‘citizenry’ the news media practices is a flavor of ‘world citizenry’ in which the only evil that exists is America under Republican leadership. In WWII, my grandfather was investigated by the FBI for saying we ought to let the Russians and Nazis slaughter each other on the Eastern front. We’ve gone WAY too far in this country accepting media-organized enemy propaganda as ‘news’.
BTW: looking good, MM.
Mike O on September 21, 2006 at 8:20 PM
This is interesting.
I’ll bet you they’ll be a bunch of anti-GOP and anti-Bush rhetoric in the form of supposed ‘classes’. Maybe acedemia wants to take a more direct hand in the social engineering media machine. It’s a way for the the extremist Left to reach out from their ivory towers without having to dirty their hands in real-world debates.
Mike O on September 21, 2006 at 8:29 PM
Mike O, yours is a good point, on those Yale classes. The plus side is that HOTAiR and other blogs can then jump right in and take them apart.
Entelechy on September 21, 2006 at 9:39 PM
Great job MM, way to stick with it as well. (and way to stick it to them). We got your back.
Kinda makes you wonder what else they got away with in the last year or two. Heck, start thinking about what might have happened previous to bloggers popularity and efficiency, say the last 8 to 10 years, or back 50 years…… ???
No wonder they’re (AP) bothered, they might have more skeletons than a cemetary. Call them on a lie, and they dont know which one you’re talking about.
shooter on September 21, 2006 at 10:34 PM
MSM brainless talking heads read the stuff pasted into their scripts from the AP wire with the same stupid smile regardless of subject. The ‘producers’ copying & pasting the drivel are mostly barely out of school and have idealistic agendas typical of twenty year olds, or worse. If you had the keys to get off the elevator at AP in DC where the wires originate you’d find the same Guess jeans crowd.
What a pleasure Michelle to hear an anchor like you that actually understands the subject matter. We must not forget that MSM is infotainment for rating$, Hotair is for in depth reporting.
Reality Check on September 21, 2006 at 11:03 PM
And we get further and further into a new industrial age the age of manufactered news
EricPWJohnson on September 22, 2006 at 12:07 AM
Wow Great report!!
jeglinas on September 22, 2006 at 4:50 AM