AP Played For Chumps As Another GOP Hit On Pelosi Bites Dust
May 8, 2007 -- 4:36 PM EST // View Comments (133) // Post a Comment

Oh, man. The GOP has a new hit out on Nancy Pelosi that's even more absurd than the bogus plane story or the "controversy" over the trip to Syria. And predictably, the Associated Press is already running with the story. The AP has already gotten its reward for doing this: A pat on the head from Matt Drudge, who predictably linked the story today, complete with a big pic of Pelosi next to the headline.

Yet this latest hit is so easily debunked -- all it took was one phone call on my part -- that it's truly astonishing that the AP ever published this garbage in the first place.

Here are the specifics: The GOP is hammering Pelosi for including a provision for $25 million in waterfront improvements in San Francisco in a big water redevelopment bill passed by the House in April. The GOP is insinuating that the provision was included by Pelosi because it could boost the value of land her husband owns in the city.

The AP jumped at the GOP's accusations late yesterday, moving this story about the GOP's attack.

As the AP story noted, Pelosi's aides are defending her by pointing out that "the waterfront improvements were requested by the Port of San Francisco," not by Pelosi, and noting that the rental properties owned by Pelosi's husband are at least a mile away from the project.

If it were proven that the improvements were in fact requested by the Port of San Francisco, and not Pelosi herself, of course, it would render the story thoroughly bogus -- unfit for publication, really. The AP, however, merely attributed this line to Pelosi's people. It's unclear whether the AP made a serious effort to determine whether it was objectively true or not. This allowed the news org to run with the GOP hit as a he-said-she-said dispute.

But I've just gotten off the phone with the Port of San Francisco. Guess what? Its representatives told me in no uncertain terms that it requested the improvements, and that Pelosi only included the improvements at their request. Here's what Brad Benson, the special project manager of the Port of San Francisco, said to me:

"The port initiated these requests. They came entirely from the city and county of San Francisco. [The requests] were generated at the staff level. The port initiated our request through the city and county of San Francisco. Our requests were funneled through the mayor's office on up to Speaker Pelosi's office...If anyone is claiming that Pelosi initiated these requests in some way, that's completely false."

Got that? Those funding provisions that the GOP is insinuating Pelosi included because they benefit her husband's real estate were actually initiated by a local agency in San Francisco, the agency says, and not by Pelosi herself. It took one phone call to nail that down -- and to show that this is a complete non-story. But the AP went ahead and ran with this crap anyway. It was bad enough that the AP even ran some versions of the story with a headline that wasn't even supported by the story in the first place, as Media Matters noted. Now we find that the story doesn't hold up at all.

You might note a pattern here. If you recall, the GOP blasted Pelosi for allegedly requesting a bigger plane and the big news orgs gleefully played along. Then when Pelosi's people said that the House Sergeant-at-Arms had requested the plane, and not Pelosi, the big news orgs that had flacked the story buried that inconvenient piece of info. A similar dynamic played out with the bogus Syria tale, too.

And now again with this Port story. How the hell do we make the hackery stop?


Update: In fairness, I should point out that the story did say that the GOP offered no evidence to substantiate its insinuation. Nonetheless, the GOP's insinuation in this case should never have been put into print in the first place, as one simple telephone call revealed.

Update II: A commenter below points out that the AP prominently featured the Pelosi camp's assertion that the Port of San Fran had requested the provision. But let me reiterate: That's completely insufficient. The AP quoted this point by attributing it to the Pelosi camp, rather than taking the extra step of independently verifying it. This allowed AP to run this story as a he-said, she-said piece.

My point is that given the extent to which this central fact completely renders this a non-story, AP should have (a) independently verified that central fact; (b) concluded that this fact deals a lethal blow to the story and proves it to be nothing more than a political hit; and as a result, (c) not run the story at all. That's my point. Now, because of the failure of AP to take this simple step, the tale is already making the rounds in wingnuttia thanks to Hannity and Drudge. This story should have never run in the first place, as that one phone call shows. Quoting the Pelosi denial is simply not enough by any stretch.


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COMMENTS:

Teh AP sure is eager to dump on Dems. Where can we send our diplomatic letetrs of discontent?

Posted by: AlphaLiberal
Date: May 8, 2007 4:54 PM

Call it the Weisman rule:
Accusations from a political party should be fact-checked.

with the Murray corollary:
Calling Leon Panetta is not "fact-checking".

Posted by: Jim
Date: May 8, 2007 4:54 PM

What, the AP is running a Drudge-pimped smear piece against a Democrat that can be easily fact checked? I am shocked, just shocked to hear that this type of shoddy work didn't leave the AP when John Solomon did...

Posted by: Hank Essay
Date: May 8, 2007 4:54 PM

"How the hell do we make the hackery stop?"

Pitchforks and torches and lots of tar and feathers. Well maybe not.

How about lots of people contacting ap and asking for a correction.

Posted by: hadenough
Date: May 8, 2007 4:57 PM

The answer to my own question: info@ap.org

PLEASE keep your emails POLITE, FACTUAL and ON POINT. Name-calling, etc, does not help our cause.

Posted by: AlphaLiberal
Date: May 8, 2007 4:57 PM

"Municipal" isn't quite right I believe -- as your excerpt indicates, it's the City and County of San Francisco, and I'm pretty sure this kind of request is handled at the county level in California.

Apologies for the pedantry.

Posted by: Gene O'Grady
Date: May 8, 2007 4:58 PM

This is the sort of silliness that makes people get their news from "The Daily Show".

Posted by: Jim ramsey
Date: May 8, 2007 4:59 PM

Where are the decent and courageous folks at the AP that will stand up and denouce this patten of irresponsible reporting?

Sceurity Code: Cricket sounds.

Posted by: me
Date: May 8, 2007 4:59 PM

If anyone's interested to check out the RSC blog referenced above, there are numerous posts on this non-story and ample opportunities to post comments and set the record straight.

http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/blog.shtml

Join the party...

Posted by: fishbrake
Date: May 8, 2007 4:59 PM

the AP was once a credible and respected news organization

alas, that was some time ago

Posted by: no peace
Date: May 8, 2007 5:01 PM

How do you make an agenda stop? There's a whole audience out there willing to lap this crap up because that's what they want to hear. Hannity and Colmes, Ann Coulter, O'Rielly, Savage the AP; the list goes on. It's what we pay for freedom of speech. Unfortunately the AP should have a more ethical approach.

Posted by: John Fawcett
Date: May 8, 2007 5:01 PM

Ya know, there's the Big Lie technique, where you hit your target with the big outrageous lie over and over again, like WMDs in Iraq, or something. There's the half-truths and innuendos technique, where you spatter your targets with countless accusations that have the facsimile of truth and thus eventually bring them down. And then, when you reach the bottom of the barrel, there's the Crying Wolf technique, when you say any damn thing that pops into your head, no matter how outrageous or easily disproved and everyone just gets bored or starts laughing at you. Could it be the once-fearsome Rove Machine has actually reached this sad state+

Posted by: Delia
Date: May 8, 2007 5:01 PM

haven't you heard? the truth has a well-known liberal bias. therefor, it wouldn't be "fair and balanced" to check the truth of the matter, would it? i mean, a priori, checking the world to see if it matches up with your claims is really just a liberal approach now. the republicans have forsaken reason.

Posted by: dejavu
Date: May 8, 2007 5:01 PM

"How the hell do we make the hackery stop?"
We make the hackery stop by debunking their junk everytime the come forth with it.
Don't look for any help from "big" media: only maybe 5 prominient CO. can claim owerniship.Now we are in this predicament thanks to that liberal Icon Bill Clinton (Tel act of 96).If there was diversity maybe a more level playing field could be envisioned.

Posted by: Jacabat
Date: May 8, 2007 5:03 PM

Is there any grounds for her husband to start a liable issue?
Everyone who reads this site should drop a line to the AP's editor (John Affleck -- to contact a specific employee write to info@ap.org) and ask them how long we have to put up with lazy hack journalists who don't give a crap about the validity of their work.

Codeword: 'Bucket' as in the only difference between an AP reporter's work and a bucket of shit is the bucket.

Posted by: Eain
Date: May 8, 2007 5:05 PM

I'm sorry, this is the same AP that ignored stories of Bush's insider trading at Arbusto & his sweetheart deal with his baseball team?

Man, it's GREAT to be a Republican.

Posted by: anonymous
Date: May 8, 2007 5:06 PM

we've been through this before. AP only answers to the newspapers which subscribe to them. They do not give a shit - let alone two shits - about us news consumers.

And if you call up to complain to your local newspaper which runs AP reports, they just point the finger back at AP.

Security code:


wait for it...


sheep.

Posted by: r€nato
Date: May 8, 2007 5:07 PM

Gene O Grady,

Your pedantry is actually incorrect. San Francisco is a municipality whose city government is actually the county government also. It is a city with the power of a county because those powers are not distinguishable in SF.

"The City and County of San Francisco is a consolidated city-county, a status it has had since 1856. It is the only such consolidation in California. The mayor is also the county executive and the county board of supervisors acts as the city council."

Posted by: david in norcal
Date: May 8, 2007 5:07 PM

From the AP by way of C&L

Olbermann's popularity and evolving image as an idealogue (sic) has led NBC News to stretch traditional notions of journalistic objectivity. . . .

Having Olbermann anchor — as he will continue, with Matthews, for big political nights throughout the campaign — is the MSNBC equivalent of Fox News Channel assigning the same duties to O'Reilly.

Fox has never done that, perhaps mindful of the immediate controversy that would result. Fox has tried to differentiate between its news operation and its prime-time opinion shows, even as its critics believe strongly that's bunk.[..]

I think this establishes them as a proaganda arm of the RNC.

Posted by: Sgt Dan
Date: May 8, 2007 5:10 PM

Odd how the scandals that originate in the White House and spread like spilled oil from a broken tanker thru the dept of justice, fema, dept of immigration and naturalization, the armed services, CIA, are always the result of a few bad apples, whether enlisted or officer, never mind, never once does the buck stop at a white house desk or at any other desks in the WH..
Yet the media lets a finger be pointed at Pelosi, or Reid, and its all that individual's fault.
The media needs to have that singular disparity in the endless lies emanating from the WH HAMMERED onto the Cathedral Doors!!!

Posted by: vox clamantis in red state
Date: May 8, 2007 5:12 PM

As someone who graduated with a degree in journalism, but then pursued a librarian degree because my reporting skills were lax, this infuriates me. How can people who are doing a worse job of reporting than I ever did (and that was for college grades!) still keep their jobs?

Posted by: paulw
Date: May 8, 2007 5:13 PM

Gene, also, on your comment:
"Municipal" isn't quite right I believe -- as your excerpt indicates, it's the City and County of San Francisco, and I'm pretty sure this kind of request is handled at the county level in California."

The county level in SF is the city level also. The city and county do not have separate offices or departments.

Posted by: david in norcal
Date: May 8, 2007 5:13 PM

"The answer to my own question: info@ap.org

PLEASE keep your emails POLITE, FACTUAL and ON POINT. Name-calling, etc, does not help our cause.

Posted by: AlphaLiberal"

Done. Basically asked them to try harder. Not much hope for a reply but who knows.

Posted by: hadenough
Date: May 8, 2007 5:13 PM

You have no idea what lengths the press went to to bury exculpatory information in the Pelosi plane story. Here is Mike Stark's account of my attempts over several days to get the Sergeant-at-Arms press release posted on Jake Tapper's moderated "Political Punch" blog ( http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/02/15/386/ ). To make a long story short: they'd post my snark, not the press release. Then I sent snark with the press release in the post, and they edited out the press release and posted the snark.

During the time that Tapper and/or subordinate was preventing the press release from seeing the light of day, Tapper was reporting this controversy, knowing full well it was false.

By the way, Tapper did finally get back to Stark. He claims it was a "glitch". A glitch that allowed every one of my posts to appear, unless they included the press release? And magically edited the press release out of a post?

They aren't being duped, folks. This proves it beyond all doubt.

Posted by: Memekiller
Date: May 8, 2007 5:13 PM

Yea. The AP was played for chumps.

Reid's property profits, boxing tickets, were all truly inexplicably incompetent (stupidly wrong, easily checked, quickly exposed, unrepentant or delayed retractions), just as are the recent Peolsi stories (this is the 4th?). Each of the democratic candidates had numerous bogus hits-- exposed very quickly. The credibility of major media companies is repeatedly destroyed on a regular basis-- it is not like it was just a few years ago (picky people have long ago given up on all of them). These are lapses so serious the editor would be fired for even ONE.

Assignment:
Determine the true nature of the "conspiracy" infecting so many media companies. The process must consist at least partially of arguments at the editorial board level, and most of the arguing should be with the basic staff present-- not simply behind the scenes.
So if a journalist were to undertake a long term study, a large number of regular staff members can reveal who, in each news organization, was promoting the "agenda". A clear pattern would be found-- since there are tens of examples for just about any big time news organization.
Imagine how motivated the real journalists would be to help determine where this corrosion is coming from. Would Dana #2 at WaPo help us understand the unexplainable BS and lapses of the (more experienced) Dana #1 ? What is AP's explanation of the Solomon trash? Perhaps some employee there actually cares about the AP.
It is not an accident-- merely two or three episodes of virtually synchronized copying of RNC/Drudge garbage could be. There are 10-30 news organizations that apparently have some RNC, or similar, connection, and these unfathomable lapses have utterly embarrassed these organizations over and over and over. And of course, it is always in the same "bias" direction. For each organization, where is this right wing poison coming from?

Posted by: dj
Date: May 8, 2007 5:15 PM

Did they edit that story recently? Because as I read it, they funnel a pretty large amount of question to the charges, saying in the second paragraph what you say about "a mile away" and that the request came from the PA. And in the third paragraph they say the Repubs offered no evidence that it would benefit the properties, also saying that the Rs are raising this issue more than two weeks after the bill was passed.

They also add near the end that "Republicans have sought to *stir controversy* over the size of the plane she uses to fly to California, wages paid by a tuna cannery owned by a company headquartered in her district, and her use of C-SPAN footage on her blog."

I know that doing the story at all without checking deserves yours or anyone's noting, but I think the fact that the Repubs are advancing this *is* a story - a story about their distortion. And this AP story, as flatly read, seems to point toward that more than anything.

And here's another story by the writer, Erika Warner, just for balance. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/14/state/n114525D07.DTL&type=politics)

Posted by: Thom
Date: May 8, 2007 5:17 PM

This will continue until Democrats start pushing back, like Obama did with Fox's "madrassas" smear.

Posted by: citizen Able
Date: May 8, 2007 5:18 PM

Who owns the AP?
Who is the management team of the AP?
How do we hold them accountable as an institution?
No wire service should ever ever ever engage in biased reporting.

Posted by: Northern Observer
Date: May 8, 2007 5:20 PM

And now again with this Port story. How the hell do we make the hackery stop?

Don't buy their papers - or products who advertise in them.

We need a List.

Usually they don't even list the reporters Name - ashamed I suppose

Posted by: skibumlee
Date: May 8, 2007 5:20 PM

Eain, in my experience going directly to AP is useless (info@ap.org). They just ignore John Q. Public. It's better to go via a news org that runs the story. E.g. I complained to Ombudsman Deborah Howell at WaPo about this AP article http://tinyurl.com/25sj7b and after a couple of contacts from her they corrected it. AP never responded to multiple emails directly from me.

Posted by: Crust
Date: May 8, 2007 5:23 PM

A little perspective: AP and newspapers are laying off hundreds of reporters. One of the newspapers in the Twin Cities announced that they were laying off 150 employees this week (obviously, not all of them, or even a majority of them would be reporters).

Now, add to this the fact that most newspapers love to run hit pieces on the Democrats and what do you have? A winner!

Why fact check something like a hit on Pelosi? The AP knows many of its clients will run with it, the rest will simply ignore it.

As for the reporter who wrote this crap? Do you honestly think that the way to get promoted is to write the truth?

Posted by: numediaman
Date: May 8, 2007 5:26 PM

Anybody happen to have contact info for Erica Werner and/or her editor?

Posted by: Crust
Date: May 8, 2007 5:30 PM

And now again with this Port story. How the hell do we make the hackery stop?

Don't buy their papers - or products who advertise in them.

Congrats to skibumlee for getting the right answer. Call your local paper, who almost certainly is an AP subscriber, and tell them that you've had it with this nonsense.

(Security code, appropriately, is "news".)

Posted by: Equal Opportunity Cynic
Date: May 8, 2007 5:33 PM

If they can stack the DOJ against Middle America,they can stack the "liberal press" against Middle America with little or no problem.
I HEAR THAT TRUE BOYCOTTING IS HELPFUL,but it take sacrifice and many in Middle America are not giong to sacrifice squat.They`ll keep buying "stuff,"going to the games,driving when they can walk,watching "24,"and the rest of the slime that comes out of the tv,and on and on and on.We`re addicted to crap.

Posted by: Sully18
Date: May 8, 2007 5:42 PM

I disagree with the characterization of the AP as chumps. I think they are in on the con game and are really trying to play their readers as chumps.

Posted by: Richard
Date: May 8, 2007 5:43 PM

Whether the request originated with a "local agency," the Speaker inserted it into the bill. Her office had said as much.

2nd, I would think that all property values within a neighborhood would benefit from a $25 million improvement to the community. If they do, even by $1, Pelosi violated House rules and lied on her earmark disclosure forms.

Sounds like the "staff level" made a mistake here.

Posted by: Craig
Date: May 8, 2007 5:44 PM

Back in the good old days, we would just take them behind the woodshed. Whatever happened to these "genteel," but effective, methods? Reasoning doesn't work; that's been proven time and time again. It's all about $$.

Posted by: Don Jo
Date: May 8, 2007 5:45 PM

what is this "code" "security code" stuff? Why do people keep putting it in their comments? I see it lotsa places?

Posted by: gfw
Date: May 8, 2007 5:48 PM

Want to complain to AP about this farce?
Send your complaints to info@ap.org.

Posted by: Gene J Bourg
Date: May 8, 2007 5:49 PM

How can we contact the AP reporter??

Posted by: anne
Date: May 8, 2007 5:51 PM

yawn....
ya know...SF is only seven x seven miles wide...(mostly surrounded by water).. so to say that hubz's dealings are only a mile away, is to also state that hubby's dealings are 1/7 or 12% the total width of the city away.
If 25 mill. is gonna benifit buisinesses for a minimum of 1 mile away...(considering the buisiness density in SF and in particular, the area)..
Thats not too bad a place for that money..
I am not in anyway a resident of SF..
OK...yes I am..whatever..

Posted by: Chris Wade
Date: May 8, 2007 5:56 PM

Thank you Alpha Liberal:

I sent my email to them, even before reading the rest of this thread.

What a shame - employing people who don't even know how to do their own jobs!

"profit" - as in "what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"

Posted by: TheraP
Date: May 8, 2007 5:57 PM

What about this part of the AP story:

"Since Pelosi became speaker in January, Republicans have sought to stir controversy over the size of the plane she uses to fly to California, wages paid by a tuna cannery owned by a company headquartered in her district, and her use of C-SPAN footage on her blog."

Um. All of those accusations were complete BS and the article revives them as if they had merit.

Posted by: Annoyed
Date: May 8, 2007 5:57 PM

You don't get it. According to the way the media defines its role these days the reporter is just supposed to give both sides of a story and let it hang out there for the readers to decide. Ms. Werner was careful to make it clear that "Republicans . . . offered no evidence of benefit to Paul Pelosi's real estate holdings" and one Republican specifically said he "had no facts" but that the Speaker "should . . .convince people there's no financial benefit to her."

So Ms. Werner gave Ms. Pelosi a chance to do so and quotes her as saying that she did not request the provision and that Mr. Pelosi's holding are not near the proposed improvement.

Case closed. Republicans demand that Pelosi "convince people" that she did nothing wrong and she made two statements which (if believed) ought to convince sophisticated people that there was nothing wrong. What do you expect a political reporter do in a situation like this? Take sides by actually trying to confirm of refute the claims of the parties? And insert their opinion as to whether there is anything newsworthy about the "story" they have chosen to offer for publication?

Posted by: Fred in Vermont
Date: May 8, 2007 6:09 PM

Here's an idea!

Let's see who posts the AP story and go after them!

I just checked The Guardian (England) and they do not have the Pelosi story up - along with their AP feeds.

New York Times also does not have that story up, and I did check carefully in a number of ways. (so, many AP stories there, but not that one)

I suggest you check other papers. And we should write papers which have posted inaccurate AP feeds.

"fear" - as in generate some fear of printing mistakes!

Posted by: TheraP
Date: May 8, 2007 6:14 PM

It's not very surprising that the GOP has been trying everything they can to paint a bad picture of notable Democratic leaders. Democrats have been winning over more support than the Republicans. The support of Democratic candidates and leaders really supports the notion that the Democrats are taking on issues that really matter to the American people. From health care to education and poverty, these issues take precedence over an ever-inflating military budget that seems to bring no resolve for any country involved. This is why the GOP has resorted to smear campaigns. They can't win on the issues.

The Borgen Project states that just $19 billion annually can end starvation and $23 billon annually can reverse the spread of Malaria and AIDS. With these issues being so easily addressed, it is no wonder that a war-touting political group that doesn't believe in humanitarianism isn't doing well in the polls or with the American people.

Posted by: elle c
Date: May 8, 2007 6:17 PM

It is very clear how you make this crap stop. You sue them. It is defamation to publish untrue "facts" that harm an indivual with "reckless disregard for their truth." That is the stricter standard that applies to public figures. Publishing a story without making a very simple check to see whether it is true is pretty clearly "reckless disregard for the truth." Until Democrats start suing, this will continue.

Posted by: Hugh
Date: May 8, 2007 6:20 PM

Oh please, Syria was a bogus controversy? She went to Syria explicitly to implement a foreign policy that is not the President's foreign policy. Don't you recall? She said she was going there because of the Iraq Study Group report recommendations ... but the ISG report's recommendations relating to Syria were all in the context of foreign policy flowing from the executive branch.

There were five ISG recommendations related to Syria, that I could find: 5, 9, 12, 14, and 15. All of them are about executive actions and policies. So either she was attempting to go over the President's head (he is the one in charge of foreign relations, according to our Constitution), or she didn't mean what she said.

That is a real story either way, whether you like it or not.

Posted by: pudge
Date: May 8, 2007 6:22 PM

Thank you, Chris Wade, for making the most obvious point! If you have ever been to San Francisco, you realize that it is not all that big. So doing something ONE MILE AWAY from something else will have ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER.

In Manhattan terms, it's like building something on the East side and saying that it's going to improve the West side.

To claim otherwise requires either lying or absolute stupidity. I'm willing to let the GOP choose.

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 6:23 PM

Not only that, $25 million is really not all that much money. Even if you lived a few blocks away, I'm not sure how you would benefit in terms of property value. San Fran has so many nice neighborhoods, museums, parks, water, etc. that it's hard to think that any one improvement is really going to have all that much of an impact.

Posted by: ohiomeister
Date: May 8, 2007 6:24 PM

AP Contact info: (from the mediamatters link)

Contact information:

http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html

The Associated Press
450 W. 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001

Main Number
+1-212-621-1500

When contacting the media, please be polite and professional. Express your specific concerns regarding that particular news report or commentary, and be sure to indicate exactly what you would like the media outlet to do differently in the future.

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 6:33 PM

The SF budget is around $5 billion.

Posted by: ryanrs
Date: May 8, 2007 6:33 PM

What about this as a way to make it stop, albeit indirectly. Effectively, create a distributed ombudsman, but that pools all AP articles to a single place: Create a blog/wiki that reprints all/part of all AP articles; tag all articles for content; let people post factual errors to the article (e.g., set a link on the relevant sentence and when you follow that link it takes you to a comments page with the correction); create summary stats of all articles and corrections (e.g., number of "links"/"correctible segments" per article; total correction postings), preferrably make it a query-able database to look at corrections by tag (and by who makes corrections/edits and other characteristics); and, create a re-edited article within x-days after the original article with inaccuracies corrected, clarified or stricken from the text.

Posted by: RSaunders
Date: May 8, 2007 6:37 PM

Pudge -- She didn't go to Syria to implement anything. She couldn't have implemented if she wanted to. She went to talk and to listen. And to learn, which is something this administration could stand to do.

Do you think she agreed to secretly sell them arms or something, in spite of U.S. policy and international agreements? Only a radical terrorist sympathizer would do something like that.

Posted by: Alan in SF
Date: May 8, 2007 6:37 PM

Pudge

What do you make of Rice's meeting with the Syrian foeign minister? And do you have a link for that "explicitly" comment?

Posted by: Thom
Date: May 8, 2007 6:40 PM

I posted on the RSC Blog the quote from the San Francisco Port Supervisor. "Craig" of the RSC Blog said it didn't matter that the Port requested the $25 Million. He said "Pelosi inserted the bill" and that "her name is on the Committee Report."

Did she "insert" the request for $25 Million into the bill or is this another wingnut rant?

Posted by: George C.
Date: May 8, 2007 6:40 PM

AlphaLiberal
Date: May 8, 2007 04:57 PM:

Thank you for AP email addy. I wrote as politely as I could manage, but did point out that we will not lay down and roll over as they destroy our country. Also asked for a promonently placed correction.

Posted by: jen
Date: May 8, 2007 6:46 PM

It wasn't like Denny Hastert's windfall payday using taxpayer dollars so that his personal property's value soared. Yeah uhuh,

I tried to rebut some of the claims on their winger site and haven't seen it up yet. Guess they won't put it up

http://tinyurl.com/23v2z4

Posted by: hey
Date: May 8, 2007 6:51 PM

Oh Brother! I heard this story in the radio this morning and started laughing my ass off. A mile in San Franscico- you have got to be kidding.

Posted by: edwardripple
Date: May 8, 2007 6:51 PM

It is important to note that SF is a city that is 7 mi. by 7 mi. square on a peninsula. That would make the geographic center of the city 3.5 mi. from water on 3 sides. If Pelosi's property is 1 mi. from the water, that is quite significant as far as effects from waterfront development are concerned in a city as dense as SF. That fact alone makes this story bogus.

Posted by: Bubba
Date: May 8, 2007 6:52 PM

there is this too, according to the legislation, there haven't been improvements since 2000 and we know what happens when there are not improvements.

anyway I tried to rebut it but the wingers won't allow reasonable arguments on their sites. Nice try wingers, more egg on their faces.

Posted by: heh
Date: May 8, 2007 6:58 PM

Say, what about this story connecting Cheney with the DC Madam?

Posted by: Drat Mudge
Date: May 8, 2007 7:00 PM

"Do you think she agreed to secretly sell them arms or something, in spite of U.S. policy and international agreements? Only a radical terrorist sympathizer would do something like that."

Secretly selling arms to our nation's enemies, in spite of US policy and international agreements, is exclusively the domain of Republicans. Exhibit A: Iran-Contra.

Posted by: r€nato
Date: May 8, 2007 7:02 PM

As the Republicans were so fond of telling us before the election, Pelosi IS the Representative from San Francisco, so one would think that carrying funding requests for projects from the local government of her constituency is her JOB. "Inserting" is not an issue, it's whether the request was a boondogle, or, as the GOPsters are alleging, was intended to benefit her husband financially. It wasn't. End of Story.

Next up, the revelation that Pelosi is supports a scheme to put pure hydrogen hydroxide into school lunches.

Posted by: biggerbox
Date: May 8, 2007 7:09 PM

Fred -- I expect them to do what I did -- make a single call to fact check a piece of information that if true would expose the story as complete nonsense. And were they to make that call I would expect them to place their own professional honor over their desire to have a byline and not run such a piece of tripe.

Is that too much to ask from a professional reporter?

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 7:14 PM

One could spend a lifetime going after the wire services, boycotting advertisers, etc to try to correct aberrant content.

The solution may be far simpler. Do not respond to these reports. I've repeatedly advocated turning a deaf ear to those who mangle the truth in their reportage.

And here's the reason why. News vendors rely upon response -- whether positive or negative -- to build their advertising capital.

THEY DO NOT CARE WHETHER YOU APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE AS LONG AS YOU PATRONIZE THEIR PRODUCTS.

So a negative response = a good response
every day of the week.

VOLUME is key, not content.

Posted by: Sharon A
Date: May 8, 2007 7:14 PM

Pelosi and Dems only make that shit stop when they either cut the AP and like-minded reporters out of the info loop or find ways to squeeze the corporate-minders of these reporters.

Unfortunately, that's the only way I see - we can no longer count on ethics and journalistic integrity on these issues. Reporters these days are all about balance and gossipy gotcha issues.

Posted by: DBJ
Date: May 8, 2007 7:18 PM

Greg asks, "How the hell do we make the hackery stop?"

There's no real choice, Greg. We have to end the media as we know it and replace it with institutions like TPM.

The first step in getting free of the propaganda media is to cancel that newspaper subscription. Do away with cable if you can get C-Span and Internet access some other way. Talk to your neighbors and explain to them that the more of the media they watch and read, the less they know. And-- listen carefully-- take the money you save and give it to new media.

Think about it. If 100,000 people took the $300 a year they give to their crappy hometown rag and the $500 a year they give to their Fox-filthy cable and used it to set up a newspaper, a *real* newspaper.....

That would be $80 million dollars. Think that an organization with that kind of budget and Internet-only distribution costs could give the NY Times a run for its money?

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 7:18 PM

4:40 pm today PDT. Hannity picks up the story as fact. He finds it very interesting.

Hannity had NOBODY on his radio show to challenge him. Callers can't. He controls the box.

Just thought you should know.
LLAP,
Spocko

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 7:44 PM

"Pelosi and Dems only make that shit stop when they either cut the AP and like-minded reporters out of the info loop or find ways to squeeze the corporate-minders of these reporters."

Pelosi holding a press conference and tearing the AP a new one would be a good start. Announce that Pelosi's staff will treat the AP as an arm of the national GOP and offer no contact or cooperation until the AP issues a formal public apology. Obama did this when Fox whored the "madrassa" story and gained popularity as a result.

Posted by: Dr. Wu
Date: May 8, 2007 7:55 PM

AP weren't "played for chumps." They succeeded in slanting the story just the way they wanted--that is, to make into a story.

Posted by: John
Date: May 8, 2007 7:57 PM

This shit isn't going to stop. What we need is a drudge report of our own. Good attack dogs? Why don't we have them? Republicans and the press need to know that anytime they are going to run smear pieces on a Democrat that there is a liberal organization that will not merely expose the lies but then launch a smear campaign of our own. Fight fire with fire. Simply exposing the lies does nothing anymore. The damage is done. The story has been run and if anyone has the decency to at least run a correction, it'll be in a section of the paper no one will see. We'll always be on the losing side if all we do is defensive work.

Posted by: christina
Date: May 8, 2007 7:59 PM

Everyone in SF knows that expansion or construction makes rental properties less valuable, not more valuable in this city.

That's why nearly all the NIMBY efforts focus on stopping investment and construction, not attracting it.

And what happens 1 mile away in this city is about as relevant to property value as what's happening in another county.

Posted by: david in norcal
Date: May 8, 2007 8:00 PM

Well, it wouldn't hurt for Josh to push this in a spot on TPM Media.

Posted by: Robert
Date: May 8, 2007 8:15 PM

There is a real story here that the AP should run. It's exactly the story that you just told.

Posted by: Terry Olson
Date: May 8, 2007 8:38 PM

Can't spell CRAP without AP.

Posted by: Corinne
Date: May 8, 2007 8:40 PM

You forgot the one where Pelosi was artificially keeping the wages low in American Samoa to benefit Starkist Tuna.

She's the most controversial Speaker evah!!! (right Suzanne Malveaux?)

Posted by: dday
Date: May 8, 2007 8:52 PM

My complaint to the san Jose Mercury-News:
http://pod01.prospero.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=4788&nav=messages&webtag=mn-comments

Posted by: Dave Adams
Date: May 8, 2007 9:01 PM

Pudge

What do you make of Rice's meeting with the Syrian foeign minister? And do you have a link for that "explicitly" comment?

Posted by: Thom

Right wing authoritarian types aren't very good at coming up with answers, when challenged. I'm sure pudge will get back to you, if he hears a suitable reichwing radio response.

Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya
Date: May 8, 2007 9:06 PM

ifhtethunder

I was thinking the same thing...

Posted by: Thom
Date: May 8, 2007 9:31 PM

This whole scenario (reprehensible as it is) is a Republican favorite that I've seen hundreds of times over the years. Let me share with you how it works if you're not already familiar with it. It's simple, effective, has a long shelf life, is easy to do, and it only takes one good, seamy allegation and one lazy reporter.

Campaign attack 101:

Plant a story in the media that generates a juicy, useful headline and at least one sentence that appears damning to the opposition. Do this well in advance of any upcoming election. Clip the story and hang on to it for use later. The accuracy of the article is of absolutely no consequence whatever. All you are looking for is a headline and one punchy sentence (whether i context or not) to smear the opposition with.

In this case, the AP runs a story that is essentially a waste of their time and completely false. They are actually made to look foolish that the story was printed in the eyes of those discenrning enough to notice it. But those folks are few and far between. Most people, including the reporter's journalistic colleagues, won't notice it at all because they are at least as lazy and uninformed as the guy who wrote the story. The AP even foreshadows, in a sense, that they know this story has no substance by pointing out the lack of substantiation for the Republican claims in the article itself. However, the old adage "don't let the facts stand in the way of a good story" rules the day once again and they run with it. It really isn't a big deal in the scheme of things at AP ("mistakes are made all the time", "nobody is perfect", etc...) and can easily be rationalized by AP and even critics as in some way defensible, but probably if a team of J-school profs were judging they would go with some other story that had more truth to it or maybe any truth to it.

Now, returning to the attack strategy...

Months later, when it comes time for the election and you want to paint the opponent as corrupt (via innuendo since that opponent isn't actually corrupt)you resurrect the headline and the one useful sentence in mail pieces, on the radio and on tv--whatever combination is most effective. You include this headline as one of a number of others that smear the opposition and even though untrue, you are able to effectively paint a portrait that leaves a taint on the reputation of the opposition. You run that spot or mail that piece ,etc. ceaselessly in the weeks leading up to the election.

Lazy reporters who don't remember the original untrue story repeat the allegation in stories about the attack piece or ad without ever verifying the unverified and false claims made in it. Your opponent and her campaign spend many hours if not days correcting the record with local and national journalists while Republican slime mongers just throw up their hands and say with a smug smirk "we were just reprinting and passing along to voters what was reported by the AP--a very reliable source usually. We're sorry they got it wrong, but we will not withdraw our ad because it is factual and we are making no claim other than what was in the media."

This is precisely the kind of lazy, unprofessional approach to journalism that Moyers identified in his 90 minute special about the media complicity in hyping the war and it something Republican smearmen count on. But this sort of laziness is far more commonplace than that which Moyers called them out for. The hordes of lazy "journalists" are very, very fortunate that our media answers to no one for these outrageous lapses in basic fact checking-but remember that news and facts is no longer what journamalism, as Atrios calls it, is about these days. It's only about a good story. Unverified gossip is okay if it's about Democrats because it is a good story. Verifiable facts about Republican corruption go completely unreported in the major media unless it has produced an indictment.

Now, the tenor of all this changes if one small portion of this scenario changes. That is, if the allegations were actually true. That's legit to point out on the part of any campaign and it's legit to print, IF and only if, the journalist runs down the facts independently and makes sure this stuff is true.

That's one of the most basic and simple campaign tactics out there today. I've outlined the way the Republicans carry it out. Democrats, generally speaking, don't go for the innuendo. Instead, they opt for verifiable and provable allegations.

Just you wait and see. This story will be rolled out next year either against Pelosi herself, the Democratic leadership and/or any vulnerable House Democrat who voted for the bill that passed. All they need is to have that smearing headline and the one sentence of what would appear to be damning "news" about Pelosi and they have all they need.

Thanks AP for yourfearlessness and objectivity in reporting.

Posted by: oleeb
Date: May 8, 2007 9:33 PM

Not the Pudge,
You dishonor a great baseball player by spewing bs and using his name.
Who the hell do you think gave Pelosi copies of the captured IDF soldiers' dogtags to take to Syria? Couldn't have been the Israeli gov't, huh?


Well said, oleeb.

Posted by: taters
Date: May 8, 2007 10:21 PM

For what its worth, I sent this letter to info@ap.org:

Can you print a retraction of the bogus story you ran about Nancy Pelosi pushing legislation that benefits her husband’s real estate? A simple confirmation would have shown that the City of SF requested the port project and that she had nothing to do with it.

This is the third time that you have compromised journalistic integrity in order to run a negative story about Nancy Pelosi, the first two being:
1.) Bogus request for a bigger plane – facts proved that she did not request the plane.

2.) Bogus controversy over trip to Syria – facts proved that State Department briefed her and that she was ferrying a message from Israel.

A pattern is forming in which the AP allows itself to be suckered into a political hatchet job in the interest of partisan politics. When will it stop?

Do you have an ombudsman that oversees this type of shoddy journalism?

Posted by:
Date: May 8, 2007 10:36 PM

AP = Awful Poop.

Posted by: JT
Date: May 8, 2007 10:57 PM

What the difference between this and what Hastert did? He sold his property and made a huge profit. Couldnt Mr. Pelosi do the same thing make a huge profit and be under the same microscope?

Posted by: JAKinTT
Date: May 8, 2007 11:08 PM

Stop worrying about what the AP is doing. I don't get my news from them; I get it from you. If it isn't a story, don't waste my time with it.

Posted by: John Drinkard
Date: May 9, 2007 12:03 AM

So let's come up with a doozy for the AP about Sen. John Cornyn, that they found images of naked children on his computer. The AP can run a he-said-she-said response from Cornyn of course. I guess it's totally OK to make up complete BS, because the AP doesn't care if there is "no evidence to substantiate its insinuation".

Posted by: KG Prophet
Date: May 9, 2007 12:38 AM

Hey. I live less than a mile from the San Francisco waterfront. Maybe she put those provisions in there to benefit me? But why would she do that... I mean, I'm just a tax-paying resident of the city.

Posted by: Taco Jack
Date: May 9, 2007 1:46 AM

The MSM has made itself completely irrelevant. The major newspapers, and especially television, are nothing more than corporate mouthpieces. You can no more expect unbiased reporting or real news from the MSM than you can expect justice from the Department of Justice. I no longer bother with the trivialized news of the MSM. I do not care about the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby or Paris Hilton's jail sentence. This is not news. It is obfuscation, fluff.

Americans should just get a grip and discover the truth for themselves.
SC: grip

Posted by: PJWhite530
Date: May 9, 2007 1:59 AM

How ya like it, biatches? Pelosi must resign!!!

Posted by: Ya Right
Date: May 9, 2007 2:17 AM

Someone should provide a map of SF to AP so it may learn what those of us in San Francisco already know: there are thousands of buildings within 1-2 miles of the Embarcadero site because it sits adjacent to the Financial Center, Noth Beach and Chinatown. Moreover, one of the buildings she has interest in is listed as being on Beiden Place. That's Belden Place, a sweet little walk street within the informal French district that is filled with restaurants. I recommend a martini at Voda and dinner at Cafe Tiramisu or Cafe Bastille myself.

Posted by: keller
Date: May 9, 2007 2:21 AM

Um...

The AP article includes all your points. I don't get this attack at all. The allegation is a serious one, but the AP put, high up in the story, the specific denials from the Port of SF. Moreover, the story's lead graf puts the accusation in "Republicans" mouths.

Do you and your readers have a victim complex or something? Sheesh. Talk it over with your shrink why don't ya.

I hope you've figured out that the underlying meme of the story is EARMARKS. The Democrats ran against them in 06. Whether or not Pelosi's husband benefits from this one is a red herring. What the hell is this earmark for Pelosi's district doing in this bill?

Posted by: JSJ
Date: May 9, 2007 2:54 AM

The AP has been infiltrated by Judith Miller clones.

Posted by: The Oracle
Date: May 9, 2007 3:06 AM

If anyone's interested to check out the RSC blog referenced above, there are numerous posts on this non-story and ample opportunities to post comments and set the record straight.

http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/blog.shtml

Join the party...
Fishbrake at May 8, 2007 04:59 PM suggested we could go to the RSC blog mentioned and "join the party."

I did so and noted here that by the very House rule the RSC was quoting, Pelosi was not in violation since it referred to a financial interest in the benchmark, not to any theoretical benefit indirectly derived. I also noted that the RSC's reading would make it almost impossible for any member of the House to introduce legislation benefitting any project in their district, since they would almost inevitably derive some indirect benefit somehow, just by being a resident.

Interestingly, it's now about 10 hours later and the comment still hasn't appeared, although one supporting the RSC, submitted around the same time, has been.

Posted by: LarryE
Date: May 9, 2007 3:17 AM

reading the bill it says the waterfront hadn't had updated repairs since 2000. We saw the neglect that caused Katrina, do we want that for the fair city of San Francisco?
Howabout this? California, by way of being the most populated state in the union, yet dollar for federal dollar send to DC doesn't get half in return. Google it if you don't believe me. 25mil is a drop in the bucket. SF deserves it, a world class city and why not?
And point to me where in SF the Pelosis don't own real estate. They're all over so its not a stretch to think their holdings will get some benefit just by proximity.

Posted by: heh
Date: May 9, 2007 3:17 AM

No repairs since 2000? My God!!! Do the people of Texas, Vermont, Ohio and Alaska realize what deadbeats they look like, not sending money to San Francisco to fix its waterfront for seven whole years?

Posted by: jsj
Date: May 9, 2007 4:42 AM

when the AP reports the increase of gasoline prices to new highs, but the lede in the same story is that the expectation is for prices to ease now, one sees the complicity, not the chumpish nature of this malevolent institution. when we stop giving them the benefit of the doubt for playing along with fascists and greedy criminals, we will advance the state of journalism.

Posted by: chris from boca
Date: May 9, 2007 7:06 AM

"How the hell do we make the hackery stop?"

You stop buying their products. That means you don't buy their newspapers or magazines and you quit watching their TV shows. You think they can make it on the 28% who still worship Chimpy?

If their circulation drops 30% in a month, watch how quickly things will change.

Posted by: Realist
Date: May 9, 2007 7:42 AM

Here is my email to them just now...

Hello from Germany!

Did you run a piece on Pelosi and this San Francisco real estate deal without fact-checking? I called my buddy in SF and in less than 30 minutes he had an answer for me. And the answer was that this was not true.

I teach an American Newspapers class at a university in Germany and explain the importance of wire services such as Reuters and the AP. They are seen as bastions of impartiality, giving newspaper a chance to buy news instead of a small Iowa or North Carolina or Arizona newspaper having a reporter in SF or Baghdad. They trust that what you report is without bias and is fact-checked. I'm sure that 99% of the time it is but how can a story about a possible scandal with the 3rd highest-ranking member of our government not be fact-checked?

I look forward to your response which informs me that a correction has been issued.

Sincerely,
my name

Posted by:
Date: May 9, 2007 7:57 AM

This story was being "reported" endlessly on Faux Hannity & Colmes last night. Ann Coulter was part of the panel.

And I shouldn't think Alaska would mind much, what with their Bridge to Nowhere and all.

Posted by: lmwilker
Date: May 9, 2007 8:16 AM

Is it or isn't it true that Mr. Pelosi could profit from it? In normal cases like this a Congressperson should step back and recuse themself

Posted by: T
Date: May 9, 2007 8:34 AM

One more "update" crow-pie and your story won't be worth posting EITHER. 8-)

Posted by: JC
Date: May 9, 2007 8:34 AM

Actually, what the AP should have done was verify that the request came from a local agency, and then run a story on what an absurd hack attempt this was, but that would never happen in the "liberal-biased MSM".

Posted by: Nick
Date: May 9, 2007 8:57 AM

AP, or All Propaganda, as I have come to calling it, is far more insidious than Fox News for one reason: its stories get published unchecked in thousands of papers across the country. It is viewed as gospel in many newsroom (I work in the industry in Florida). At least Fox can influence only those who make the decision to tune into its slanted coverage. Those folks are already gone. But most communities have only one newspaper, and even in those cities with two or more, the AP is the primary source of state, national and international news. And know this, AP will never go anywhere with a political story that damages Republicans (and their corporate media baron supporters) unless the story has been broken by a major metro and picked up by the networks. The U.S. Attorney story is a prime example. Thanks for this blog post, because it is far past time for AP to get the kind of attention from the reality-based community that has previously been reserved for Fox News.

Posted by: Brian
Date: May 9, 2007 11:12 AM

AP is just digging a deeper hole for the MSM to be eventually buried in.

Keep digging, AP!

Posted by: nikto
Date: May 9, 2007 11:57 AM

Liberal media, indeed...

Posted by: LarryD
Date: May 9, 2007 2:16 PM

Upton Sinclair once famously described the Associated Press as "Public opinion poisoned at the source."

Posted by: TeddoDC
Date: May 9, 2007 3:33 PM

I agree with everything you say Greg, but there is a real story here: the media seems to have it in for Pelosi. As you know, this is part of the trend. This is at least the fourth aggressively hyped yet bogus story against Pelosi since December (by my count: 1. Intelligence Committee, 2. jet, 3. Syria [3a going to Syria 3b wearing scarf in mosque], 4. now this). That trend is a real story. Apparently, a lot of people are very scared of Pelosi.

Posted by: Crust
Date: May 9, 2007 4:19 PM

How exhausting is this! We have to watch every flippin story coming out to the public these days as the spin doctors continue to try and poison the water.. Pardon my pun.. Maybe it's time for us to take over the public press so we can get the truth out.

Posted by: Matt
Date: May 9, 2007 4:48 PM

When Dennis Hastert was Apeaker he actually did do, what Pelosi is accused of. Hastert both large tracts of farmland in rural area just west of Chicago and then worked to approve funding for a new highway going directly through the property he just bought, rasing its value significantly.

Where was Drudge then??????

Posted by: Dean
Date: May 9, 2007 5:01 PM

The AP is unique as a news organization in that it is actually a cooperative. IIRC, each state has an AP bureau and of course there are AP bureaus at various locations around the globe. It's a bottom up shop that has distribution networks in common. If there is a particular reporter's work that you have complaints about, by all means contact Tom Curley, President and CEO of the Associated Press. Send a brief, polite note via e-mail, and it's won't go unnoticed. Curley is my hero, fighting a good fight against government secrecy....check him out.

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