AP Disgraces Self [Again] with Ueber-Leftist Biases

James Taranto thrashes the metaphorical buttocks of Associated Press with verbal bullwhippings, subtlely administered. Here is the AP coverage of a Tea Party March on 3/20/10:

House Democrats heard it all Saturday--words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.

Of course, the three CBC congresscritters were unable to come up with any audio or YouTube evidence, but who needs evidence if it's kangaroo journalism? When a bunch of marchers trashed downtown Santa Cruz Saturday night, AP had a different slant:

Close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigrants' rights march in downtown Santa Cruz [Calif.] turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said an estimated 250 people started marching through the city around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
It was a harmonious but "unpermitted and unsanctioned event," he said, until some in the crowd started breaking windows and spraying paint on retail shops that line the downtown corridor.
Friend said he wasn't sure if the damage was caused by people marching in support of immigrants' rights, or if the group was "infiltrated by anarchists."
Anarchy signs were spray-painted on some of the buildings.
"They're a group of people who seem to fancy themselves as revolutionaries, but what they really are are a group of morons," Friend said.

Supersleuth Friend will surely let us know if them pesky anarchists did the dirty work among the peaceful immigrant-rights crow, we can be sure.
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For a good time, click on the Taranto link and read just how skanky snark lefty journalism infects AP & Reuters & AFP & fill-in-the-blank "wired" services.