MSNBC IS CONDUCTING A POLL

They want to know whether or not the people being polled support Arizona's new illegal immigration law. So far, this is the result:

95.7%

Yes

1,582,664 votes

Bet they didn't expect this result!

TWELVE DAYS TO RESPOND?

It bears repeating: If George W. Bush were still president, the mediabots would have been shrieking at the top of their lungs about the lengthy delay in response time! But since it's the Kenyan Wetback, nothing is heard except the sound of crickets! Then they wonder why they're rapidly going out of business!

INTENTIONAL DISCONNECT?

The headline on the Associated Press story in my local newspaper read "Hundreds Turn Out for Palin" while the article started out "More than 1,000 fans cheer former Alaska Governor in Michigan for Book Tour," and the subsequent online story read: "Thousands gathered outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids to get a signed copy of Sarah Palin's new book." So which was it AP? Did y'all fail basic math?

Is this kind of nonsense really necessary or useful? It's no wonder that the credibility of the formerly elite media is at an all time low! And to be very realistic, we need them to be vibrant and healthy and successful because they should be the watchdogs over elected officials - reporting the facts without fear or favor! Doesn't happen, kids. Doesn't happen at all. Which is why the newspaper business is dying and TV news programs have ever slimmer audience share.

You'd think they'd learn but they are so deep in thrall to the present administration as to be wholly deaf to reality!

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WAS A RESPECTED NEWS ORGANIZATION - ONCE UPON A TIME!

They have become scum-sucking, bottom-feeding whores who have about as much to do with real journalism as my cat!

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.

Then these cretins wonder why they are losing so much money and nobody wants to read their product any longer. They've self-destructed in a very real and public way, starting with the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. All of them and many others are mere shadows of their former admirable selves and do not deserve the trust and attention of honest Americans! This particularly saddens me because I was trained as a journalist during my undergraduate days. We were taught that ethics and fair dealing were qualities to be prized, and sensationalism was to be avoided. Clearly the AP hasn't learned this lesson, else they would not have found it acceptable to distribute this photograph nationwide over the objections of the Marine's father.

Shame on them. Shame on the newspapers who found it acceptable to use those photographs either online or in their print editions!

The hell of this is, due to their utterly despicable lack of ethics, the newspapers that were once essential to keeping our governing class honest, will be no more. It's up to the "new media" now, folks!