Creepy Love Child Story

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And that source isn't biased, of course.

What does bias have to do with whether the AP did not identify the party affiliation? They either did or they didn't and the AP material is linked there.

You know AP isn't usually an originator, right?

[Coito ergo sum]

And that source isn't biased, of course.

What does bias have to do with whether the AP did not identify the party affiliation? They either did or they didn't and the AP material is linked there.

You know AP isn't usually an originator, right?

The AP is a newspaper cooperative, and it's responsible for what it publishes. This sort of thing is not an isolated incident.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeppers, the Librul Media is out to get the Good Guyz.

[Robert_S]

And that source isn't biased, of course.

What does bias have to do with whether the AP did not identify the party affiliation? They either did or they didn't and the AP material is linked there.

You know AP isn't usually an originator, right?

The AP is a newspaper cooperative, and it's responsible for what it publishes. This sort of thing is not an isolated incident.

Support your assertion with some evidence.

Then, if you succeed, you'll still have to deal with the fact that it is bigger news when a politician from the party that has allied itself to the Christian fundamentalists and made so much noise about "Traditional Family Values" and "The sanctity of marriage" has a scandal than one from the party that hasn't done these things.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Persecution complexes are fun to fuck with. :twisted:

[Coito ergo sum]

And that source isn't biased, of course.

What does bias have to do with whether the AP did not identify the party affiliation? They either did or they didn't and the AP material is linked there.

You know AP isn't usually an originator, right?

The AP is a newspaper cooperative, and it's responsible for what it publishes. This sort of thing is not an isolated incident.

Support your assertion with some evidence.

I did provide some evidence.

Then, if you succeed, you'll still have to deal with the fact that it is bigger news when a politician from the party that has allied itself to the Christian fundamentalists and made so much noise about "Traditional Family Values" and "The sanctity of marriage" has a scandal than one from the party that hasn't done these things.

I don't have to do do that because it is not relevant to my assertion. My assertion was only that when a Democrat congressman is in a scandal, there is a tendency to not identify him as such. That has nothing to do with whether it's "bigger news" or smaller news.

I certainly think it is reasonable to hold a Republican who cries family values and is judgmental about sexual morality to a higher standard than someone who does not pontificate in that manner. I don't disagree with you there.

[Robert_S]

Two examples are not really enough to establish a trend. Surely on a site that wants to "expose liberal media" they'd have an aggregated list.

[Strontium Dog]

If he's called Cohen he's a member of the Joo Party, right?

[LouFCD]

It's less of a story when a Democrat is involved in a sex scandal, as it isn't the Democrats, by and large, that are trying to foist their sexual "morality" on everyone else through force of law.

[Ayaan]

It's less of a story when a Democrat is involved in a sex scandal, as it isn't the Democrats, by and large, that are trying to foist their sexual "morality" on everyone else through force of law.

[Robert_S]

I still don't have more than two solid examples of party affiliation omission and I'm expected to believe it's a trend even though I've provided an example of a news agency switching party affiliation.

Just out of curiosity, before Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich went on the talk show circuit, how many Ratz in the US knew of him verses his predecessor George Ryan.
They're both serving time on corruption charges. Rod's a Democrat and George is a Republican.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

A. Republican does/says something massively stupid.
B. Republican gets called on it.
C. Republican blames librul media for calling him on it.
Conclusion: Librul media is out to "get" Republicans.

Simples.

[Warren Dew]

And that source isn't biased, of course.

What does bias have to do with whether the AP did not identify the party affiliation? They either did or they didn't and the AP material is linked there.

That's a valid point.

Back to the original post, though, I don't quite understand what's creepy about it. Do you think the guy's love is more than fatherly, or something?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This was the only reason he posted it, Warren.

As an aside, It took me a while to find out what party affiliation Cohen is -- he's a Democrat -- which I strongly suspected because in any scandal involving a Democrat, they never specify his party. They just say "Rep. Stephen Cohen," where "Rep." stands for Representative. If he was a Republican, they'd put that right up front.

[Coito ergo sum]

Two examples are not really enough to establish a trend. Surely on a site that wants to "expose liberal media" they'd have an aggregated list.

It's something I've noticed over time -- like the last 10 to 15 years. I haven't kept a file on it. And, it wasn't really the topic of the thread.

I've noticed that very often there is a failure to identify a Congressman as a Democrat when the article is unflattering. It's not something I'm just noticing now, it's something I've seen for a long time.

I could be wrong, of course, as I don't have the overarching stats on it.

Also, you asked about "some" evidence. I provided "some" evidence. I did not provide a damning statistical study of many years of newspaper reports setting forth the number as a whole.