My name is Hippocritico and I’m here to help my friends in the mainstream media protect their journalistic legacies by making sure they don’t come off as brazen, biased, hypocrites by covering a particular story that hurts one political party and not covering a similar story that hurts another.
Back in 2009, our friends at the Associated Press assigned no less than 11 reporters to fact check former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin’s autobiography “Going Rogue.”
Eleven!
Even though they got most of it wrong, you still have to admire the AP’s diligence and determination to hold a public figure accountable.
Since the AP is so concerned with fact checking, I’d like to suggest they assign at least one reporter to fact check and report their findings on the NAACP’s recent condemnation of the Tea Party movement. Courtesy of Big Government’s Larry O’Connor, here’s a little something to help them get started:
Take a look at the press release issued by the NAACP announcing their resolution condemning the Tea Party movement for racism:
In March, members of the Congressional Black Caucus were accosted by Tea Party demonstrators and called racial epithets. Civil rights icon John Lewis was spit on, while Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was called the “N” word
Amazing, isn’t it. You’d think that if the myth of the racial slurs hurled at black congressmen was the justification to condemn an entire political movement they’d at least get their story straight.
I have no doubt the AP fully understands that when a once-respected organization like the NAACP accuses everyday Americans of tolerating racism it represents a very serious charge where the facts matter.
So, like all of you, I look forward to what I’m sure will be a vigorous an thorough investigation from our fact-obsessed friends at the AP.
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