TOWNHALL | Published February 13, 2025
One of the enduring mysteries of American politics is why—until now—politicians have refused to stand up the biased monopoly known as The Associated Press. Year in and year out, AP “journalists” smear conservatives in general and Donald Trump specifically under the guise of “objectively reporting the news.”
Over the years, TOWNHALL readers have seen my many columns which have carefully documented the pro-Democrat hacks and biased “reporters” at the AP who habitually twist the truth and use half-truths and comically misnamed “Fact Checks” to paint President Trump and his Administration in the most negative light possible.
This is hardly a new phenomenon. Ten years ago—in January 2015—former Arizona Congressman JD Hayworth interviewed me on one of the countless outrages involving the AP and the slimy double standards they employ in their news coverage.
Tuesday provided the latest prima facie example. On the day when American teacher Marc Fogel was remarkably released after being imprisoned for over three years by the Russians, the AP’s ire was instead triggered when The White House barred one of its reporters from covering an Oval Office signing ceremony because the Associated Press refuses to accept President Trump’s renaming of the former Gulf of Mexico as “the Gulf of America.”
Executive Editor Julie Pace immediately whined that the Trump administration was violating the First Amendment when it barred one of her journalists from an executive order signing.
“As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism,” Pace’s statement reads. “It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism.”
And in a classic aside fit for The Laugh Factory or FunnyBones comedy clubs, Pace concluded that “limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.” Let’s get the hay down where to goats can get at it: While the AP thinks it represents“independent, factual nonpartisan journalism,” I’m pretty certain the public won’t be losing any sleep over Tuesday’s White House action.
One of the most important players in our immune systems is the white blood cell; white cells patrol the blood and tissues throughout the body in search of intruders. When they detect a foreign substance, they send out signals and launch an immune attack.
AP’s equivalent of white blood cells is the White House Correspondents Association. Parroting Julie Pace’s performance as the 2025 version of silent film star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD, WHCA president Eugene Danielsreflexively declared the White House “cannot dictate how news organizations report the news, nor should it penalize working journalists because it is unhappy with their editors’ decisions.” That’s quite an indictment coming from Daniels…whose day job is serving asPlaybook chief correspondent for POLITICO. (Yup, that’s the same POLITICO that DOGE just unearthed millions of dollars of Biden era government dollars being funneled to that liberal-slanted website.) Of course, just like the AP… editors of POLITICO cried crocodile tears in the wake of DOGE’s stunning revelations claiming that they, too, are “unbiased and objective.”
Considering the revolving door at the AP, don’t expect anything to change at the Associated Press. Their longtime White House “correspondent” Jonathan Lemire—who did double duty while on the AP payroll as a “contributor” at Pravda-on-the-Hudson MSNBC—was tapped in November 2021 as White House correspondent for (wait for it) POLITICO. Lately he’s a contributor to the far left publication The Atlantic, with one of his recent articles being titled “The Day Trump Became The Un-President.”
Only in the Washington, D.C. swamp could a hack like Jonathan Lemire who regularly stabbed Donald J. Trump at the AP and at MSNBC and at POLITICO and now The Atlantic magazine be referred to with a straight face as a “journalist” rather than a political activist.
Fortunately for the rest of us, the Nicolle Wallaces and Jonathan Lemires and Lawrence O’Donnells have been marginalized on either far-left outlets like MSNBC or—in former CNN anchor Jim Acosta’s case—online videos which appear to be originating from Acosta’s basement. They can rant to each other without impacting anyone other than their literally dozens of followers. (Even the Trump-obsessed Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin bolted the legacy newspaper in protest of her view that Post management was “capitulating” to our President; she launched her own website appropriately called The Contrarian…making her just another lonely coyote baying at the moon while deluding herself into thinking she’s “impacting” our culture.)
While his Lilliputian antagonists retreat, regroup and reorganize, our 47th President continues to flood the zone with Executive Orders…slashing the fat and waste in the federal government…and marginalizing pests like the Associated Press by restricting their access to him. They are still free to insult him, of course. And their media cohorts like Kaitlin Collins and the vile Joy Reid will still cry that Trump is pushing America dangerously close to a so-called “Constitutional crisis” (a silly, empty term which bounces off Donald Trump like bullets off the Man of Steel) but the rest of us know the truth.
From charging forward with long-overdue governmental accountability to thrilling patriotic events like Trump’s welcome of Marc Fogel to the White House during a D.C. snowstorm, our 47thPresident has officially ushered in America’s new Golden Age.
And wow: we figured it out all by ourselves, without the assistance of self-professed “independent, factualnonpartisan journalists” like the AP.
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
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REDSTATE | Published February 13, 2025
Today we see hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth in the press over a move made by Donald Trump. Yes, yes – again. This time it involves a decision made at the White House regarding press access, and judging by the reaction, you would think the president had gone over to the National Archives and taken a Zippo to the Bill of Rights. Sure, the reason was petty, and the action taken was snarky – yet the press reacted like a teenager whose X Box was just pitched into a smelter.
This all stems from Trump’s effort to make the cartography alteration of “The Gulf of America.” The Associated Press is taking a stance against using this new designation, as the news syndicate prides itself on being the official arbiter of the journalistic lexicon. As a result of being obstinate on the issue, the White House declared yesterday that AP correspondents would not be granted access to what are now Trump’s frequent Oval Office impromptu press gatherings for executive order signings.
In reaction to this decision, the AP and others in the media are handling this with all the grace of senior class ingenue told they cannot sit at the Cool Kids table. You can probably guess how this was addressed by the self-important prigs in the press; yes, the First Amendment, censorship, and freedom of the press were all trotted out in various reactions.
Peter Baker joined in as well, with an official word from the AP’s Executive Editor Julie Pace.
Ms. Pace has since locked down her social media, choosing to bravely avoid defending her position. So she complains about the limiting of free expression while also limiting others from expressing their views to her. Huh.
Perhaps the most outrage was seen from The FIRE Organization, a free speech advocacy group. In its posting they invoked all manner of hysterics: “alarming attack,” “viewpoint discrimination,” “unconstitutional,” “punish,” and “fundamental freedom” were all trotted out in response. To which we had to ask – did you react in kind when Joe Biden did this exact thing while he was in office?
And therein lies the issue. Somehow when a Democrat president acts aggressively towards the press these fainting couch performative theatrics are never on display. Yet today we are told the First Amendment is being violated because a correspondent was not allowed into a room. The AP is not stopped from reporting or using free expression. The proof? Look how the Associated Press was not silenced in any fashion and has been able to freely come out with its official statement on being allegedly censored.
As just another means of showing how ridiculous this wailing has been, look at what is being said. If the AP does not have the chance to share its reports with the public, that threatens our democracy and our rights. Then how does the syndicate describe the fact that not one but two major newspaper chains recently dropped the Associated Press as their wire service provider? To follow the logic, Gannett and McClatchy are violating the First Amendment by no longer using AP to provide their news content.
And just to drop a putrid cherry atop this spoiled sundae of outrage, let’s address the claim that it is unacceptable for Trump to attempt to control the language.
This is the AP we are talking about, the outlet that uses its stylebook for leftist activist causes in its reporting. They have told us that it is required to use a capitalized “B” for blacks, but just the lower case “W” when describing whites. It also has mandated that “illegal immigrants” is not proper, because while the act of entering the country can be described as “illegal,” it cannot apply to the individual. (This is like saying you can commit a car theft, but that does not make you a thief.) The best was its approach to redefining protests.
First, the AP Stylebook was making the distinction not to refer to the violent BLM uprisings in cities as riots. Then months later, following the January 6 Capitol riot, it declared the definition of “insurrection” applied. (Phrases like “mob,” “riot” and “insurrection” were appropriate, noted John Daniszewski, vice president and editor at large for standards.) And then, after not one but several incidents in state capitols where there were uprisings within their chambers, the AP scolded Republicans for applying the AP terminology to describe them as insurrections.
These are the ever-shifting standards we are forced to contend with, as the press outlets who love to accuse others of trafficking in misinformation cannot even adhere to a set of standards in their profession. Now being physically excluded from a recorded event that can be seen in its entirety can be declared an act of censorship…all while nobody has stopped you from going out and bleating about how you are being silenced.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
