via Attorney General Holder Expected To Change Bush Policies.
LARRY MARGASAK | February 3, 2009 07:17 AM EST | AP
Another key question facing Holder is whether to reverse former President George W. Bush’s order that three of his former top aides _ Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten _ should not testify before Congress about firings of U.S. attorneys. Rove and Miers were former aides when Bush gave his order.
Right-wing shills
Another Associated Press story with an exaggerated headline designed to inflame the right-wing. Once into the article you find speculation and assumption on what Holder might do in respect to Congressional actions and other issues previously pondered by the Main Stream Media. Nothing is mentioned insinuating those issues need changing and reversing Bush is the right thing to do, of course. Instead the article is designed to leave us doubting the change Holder can bring proving the Associated Press, like the Republican Party, is on the wrong side of history.
This next sentence, further down in the article, is a perfect example of the attempt at sensationalism – making the title of the story controversial, but the content remains benign:
The Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program is certain to come under Holder’s scrutiny.
It certainly will. But is this something we don’t know? The next sentence in the article was obviously written to support the previous claim about warrantless wiretapping. It’s nothing but a rehashing of history to remind us what happened and fluff the article:
After a lengthy and heated debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks, Congress last year eased the rules under which the government could wiretap American phone and computer lines to listen for terrorists and spies.
The verdict here is the sensational artlicle announced in the headline goes flat in the reading. The Associated Press has once again taken an event such as the historic confirmation of Eric Holder and has tried to turn it into something questionable. This is yet another example of the right-wing leanings of the AP.
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