Associated Press – Part of the lame stream media?
For years I have held the Associated Press in high regard. I thought that the AP was less biased than many of the major news outlets. However, this morning after reading an AP account of Governor Mike Huckabee’s gaff on Obama I have to change that opinion.
When I log out of my Yahoo email I am dumped to Yahoo News page. I don’t normally go to Yahoo for my news, but sometimes there is a headline that catches my eye and I will read it. This morning there was a news item there titled, “FACT CHECK: Huckabee claims Obama grew up in Kenya.” Governor Huckabee made a statement in a radio interview saying, that since Obama was raised in Kenya his view of the British was very different than the average American. About mid article there is a reference to Obama’s removing the bronze bust of Churchill from the Oval Office and returning it to the Brits. The author of the piece, Phillip Elliot, went on to say;
“He failed to note that Obama replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.”
I remembered reading an article some time ago about Obama returning the bust in the Telegraph so I went searching for it. Mr. Elliot should check his facts. According to an article in the Telegraph, Mr. Obama did in fact return the bust to the possession of the UK. According to the Telegraph the bronze bust now resides in the residence of the British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald in Washington, just down the street from the Vice President’s residence.
Governor Huckabee may be wrong on where Obama was raised, (maybe) but his point about the President’s attitude toward the British is pretty well right on. I have read several articles about President Obama being influenced by his Kenyan father’s anti-colonial feeling toward the British. Surely that has a lot to do with Obama returning the bust of Churchill to the British, not to mention his less that warm relations with the UK.
Dinesh D’Souza explains Obama’s motivation very well in this book The Roots of Obama’s Rage. Mr. D’Souza states that, “Obama is motivated by inherited rage — an often masked, but profound rage that comes from his African father; an anticolonialist rage against Western dominance, and most especially against the wealth and power of the very nation Barack Obama now leads.”
My point? It is now very difficult to tell “News” from “Opinion” in the media. When you read something that sounds like news, it may be flavored with opinion, so do your own research.