Olbermann just called out Babington and the AP.

That speech wasn't 35 minutes, it was 42 minutes, and the content was exactly the opposite of what the guy describes.  What an Asshat.  The AP is destroyed.

Mrs. Carrol,

As a journalism student, I was both sad and excited as the venerable newspaper was being slowly replaced by the internet news site.

My great-grandfather, an immigrant from Lebanon, read four newspapers daily: two in English, and two in his native Arabic. I, myself do my best to read my cities two newspapers daily (The Inquirer and the Daily News), not out of some wistful desire to honor my forebears, but because there is no replacement for the feeling of paper and ink in your hands.

It is with this in mind that I am disappointed that your great and historic organization has abandoned it's oath of integrity to become a parrot for the most short-sided and blatant of Republican and conservative talking points.

I don't want to stop buying newspapers, Mrs. Carrol, but you're making it less and less attractive to do so.

Respectfully,
Danny Bauder

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/a roundthetable/babington.html

Here's his picture.  If you see him spit or don't break in traffic.

Newspapers across the country will stop using them, or at least will complain very vocally. The AP is designed to be the GENERIC news service. The one that other people add flourishes onto.

For my small part I will no longer click on or link to any AP stories, just as I don't watch or link to FOX LIES.

But the video footage of Obama's brilliant speech will trump an AP story that will be in newspapers few even read these days.

I e-mailed last time.  Now his boss is getting a phone call.  Daily if need be.

We will not let this slide, AP!

Heading over to Kos to see what the next move is.

No more Dukakis, Gore or Kerry.

This year, Dems fight back and like Biden's Mom said, we bloody their nose.

Tough on terrorists and tough on media hacks!

Olbermann is all over this article calling it utter and complete BS.  He wonders if they even watched the speech.  That can't be helpful to the AP or Fournier.  

I'd suggest that folks with yahoo ids click through to the AP articles on Yahoo and rate them 1 star as well. I certainly don't recommend that article to anyone.

Looking around on yahoo, I ran across a Reuter's article that has what I think may be the saddest, weakest attack on Obama I could imagine, from a random Republican:

"It was a feel-good speech. It made you think about yourself and where you wanted the United States to go. It was just him making you feel good for the purpose of him getting elected," Lindsey said.

When the worst criticism Reuters reporters can find of Obama's speech is that it "made you think about yourself and where you wanted the United States to go," the Republicans are at a loss for words.

Subject: More "Fair and Balanced" AP?

Re Charles Babington's ridiculous write-up of something other than Obama's speech -- since that clearly was NOT what he was describing: It would have been a good idea for him to wait until the speech was over to begin writing. If he had actually listened to it, he might have drawn a different conclusion (and gotten the length of the speech right).

How do you people look at yourselves in the mirror in the morning? Better question: if you have kids, how do you look them in the eye and tell them with a straight face the value of being truthful?!

Shame on you!

[Jim in Chicago]

With Rove and Noonan praising Bill Clinton's speech, I thought it couldn't get weirder. Until I found the YouTube of Buchanan effusively praising Barack's as the best politician speech he ever heard.

That Babington dude is a jealous bigot.