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Associated Pravda'a (AKA Associated Press) mission statement read's:

"AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed."

Lisa Fabrizio at the American Spectator puts that lie to rest today;

[L]ike many of its contributing entities, it is a mere shell of its formerly unbiased self. As chronicled by many in the blogosphere, AP reporters and correspondents are often anything but disinterested journalists. The AP's latest op-ed piece masquerading as a news story shouts, "Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq Had WMD."

The piece cites a recent Harris Poll that was more accurately titled, "Belief that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction Has Increased Substantially." Among other things, the poll claims that 50 percent of Americans believe that Iraq had WMDs, as opposed to last year when only 36 per cent answered affirmatively. How this translates into the AP using the word "still" in its headline is known only to it. A less ethically challenged blurb would have read, "More in U.S. Believe Iraq Had WMD," but the AP never lets ethics get in the way of a good Bush-bash....

...Yet, despite repeated instances of media lies, misrepresentations and even forgery, the AP's Charles J. Hanley has the chutzpah to opine that the reason half of America believes that Iraq had the WMDs is

"a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq."

The seething condescension in the above statement is matched only by the breathtaking arrogance it took to publish it in a supposedly fact-based story. The bulk of the article quotes authors of books such as Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War, but dismisses as "uncorroborated hearsay" a book by Iraqi general, Georges Sada, which claims that Saddam shipped WMDs to Syria before the war.

Lisa provides a few more examples & includes a quote from Hillary Clinton on the floor of the Senate in October 2002 showing that many Democrats, even those in leadership positions were convinced Saddam had WMD's. Somehow the allegedly "objective" AP & their peers in the MSM have conveniently forgotten all of those damning facts. That's critical element in identifying a top flight "newz" organiztaion, right?

Lisa sees right through the haze;

Whatever the reason, the media in general and the Associated Press specifically seem disturbed that, despite their best efforts, more and more Americans are wending their way around them to the truth.