AP employs soaring rhetoric in description of Obama vs. GOP

But As For Me reports on AP reporter Charle’s Babington’s characterizations of the GOP and Obama in a piece Babington wrote today on how Obama’s trying to woo certain GOP governors to his side:

AP political writer Charles Babington underlined how President Obama hoped to “divide and conquer” Republicans as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will “embrace” Obama’s alleged stimulus on Thursday. Obama’s opponents are hardliners, but his GOP friends have no label:

Republican governors have had mixed reactions to the massive measure. Some hardline conservatives, such as Mark Sanford of South Carolina, have rejected portions of the economic bounty.

Other GOP governors, including Charlie Crist of Florida, have welcomed Obama and the stimulus money. Schwarzenegger is casting his lot with that group.

No “hardline conservatives” were allowed to speak against Obama in the Babington piece. But he suggests Obama will be playing a dashing political role:

Throughout the trip, Obama is playing the role of the embattled populist crusader, helping average Americans fight entrenched interests on Capitol Hill and Wall Street.

He said Southern California’s weather and conversations are much nicer than in Washington. The conversation Wednesday was more one-sided, to be sure, as the Costa Mesa crowd cheered, 2,500 miles from the Capitol’s shadow.

He defended his ambitious plan to overhaul health care, energy, education, taxes and spending policies in the coming months, against unidentified forces aligned against him.

Following the usual media template, Babington described Obama’s plans as “ambitious” rather than “liberal,” let alone “hardline liberal.” It’s also sneaky to suggest Obama will “overhaul” taxes, not raise them.

Well, hey, what did you expect? The man’s a hero destined to slay all those evil conservative dragons to free the dudes and damsels who are in distress all across the country. Didn’t BAFM get the memo?

Mwalimu Daudi says:

March 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm

I think that this explains al-AP’s growing panic.

Personally, I believe that they worry for nothing. ACORN and the Holder Justice Department will be picking our Congress for years to come, if not decades. The slow-motion steal of the US Senate election in Minnesota is only the beginning of the Cook County-ification of America.

Still…the fact that even though the peasants may be lazy and easy-going they are not fooled is deeply upsetting to Babington and David Espo (who wrote a similar smear piece today). It is not enough that the government-backed media outlets like AP are turning the United States into Zimbabwe (complete with corrupt elections and a shattered economy). For the sake of their own moneterous egos they must believe that they are getting away with it.

Yax K'uk' Mo' says:

March 19, 2009 at 2:03 pm

How do you know Obama is not the Messiah?

Because Jesus knew how to build a cabinet.

Carlos says:

March 19, 2009 at 6:22 pm

When thinking of Obama, Holder, Pelosi, Dodd, Schumer et al, the term “radical extremist” comes to mind. After all, aren’t they the ones who want to jail us for our thoughts, do away with that pesky 2nd Amendment, “re-educate” us when we disagree with their drive to deprive us of freedoms, create the “green shirts” (just a modern version of Hitler’s Brown Shirts) and generally drive what used to be a world leader and power into a third-rate, third world country?

Nah, that can’t be. “Radical extremist” refers to a mainline conservative. Just ask the MSM.