This is a good opinion piece because I found myself weighing the writer's viewpoint and deciding whether I agreed. Marshall quotes an AP ad as evidence that the wire service has bought into the McCain campaign's argument about his statement on Iraq and is no longer critically evaluating it. He provides a permanent link to the entire story and after reading it I would agree this seems true of the current example; more examples, if available would establish a pattern. He provides a link to more coverage of McCain's statements on Iraq including their context. and raises a valuable point: "If there is an unfair supposition at work here, there is a simple way to find out. Someone should ask McCain how long he's willing to have us ... More »

This is an opinion piece with plenty of facts and videos to prove its central thesis. That being said, I’ll say: Giant corporations, including Media, own the Republican Party. So why wouldn’t AP toe the GOP line. I mean that would be like cutting the strings to your puppets.

This is great counter ammunition for the Rev. Wright controversy

This opinion piece fails to make the point in the lead tieing the AP to McCain. It makes the point about McCain's willingness to stay long term,but those are seperate issues

It is what it is. Josh Marshall is da bomb.

To say that the AP has "fallen for" the efforts by the McCain campaign and the RNC to prevent the media from examining and publicizing "his own words against him" is naive and very far off the mark. The AP and the rest of the corporate media DO NOT INTEND to use anything against McCain. He is THEIR CANDIDATE. They will work to distract and ultimately destroy the Obama campaign with such Swift Boating occasions as the National Press Club's invitation to Reverend Wright in order to revive the furor their colleagues had already created over the Reverend's commentaries and to stick it all onto Obama like glue by repeating the "connection" endlessly. The pretext that the Press Club innocently wanted to have the Reverend "explain ... More »