October 20th 2008
Media Bias #91
“I See Dead Republicans,” AP Says
AP reported Sunday on a lobbying effort by Freddie/Fannie directed at Republicans, obscuring throughout the leadership Dem leadership and Dem lobbyists had over protecting Fannie & Freddie from government regulation.
In Mortgage Firm Arranged Stealth Campaign, a $2 million lobbying effort by a GOP lobbying firm, DCI, is detailed, laying out successful efforts to stop the Fannie/Freddie regulation McCain signed onto in 2005. The story paints a picture of GOP culpability in the failure because a majority of GOP Senators were for the bill, and for more controls.
That’s right. AP brushes that off and instead focuses on DCI’s campaign targeting GOP senate leadership, succeeding in keeping the bill from coming to a vote. It barely mentions the Dem reaction to the bill, saying only:
In the end, there was not enough Republican support for Hagel’s bill to warrant bringing it up for a vote because Democrats also opposed it and the votes of some would be needed for passage.
How did the Dems come to oppose the bill so strongly that not even a few could be peeled off? Was there not a similar, even stronger, lobbying effort directed at them? Of course there was; AP just doesn’t bother to tell us.
The article also includes this scurrilous line:
McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, or his lobbying firm has taken more than $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dating to 2000.
“Or?!” There’s no “or” to it. Davis’ firm got money, but Davis did not. As structured, this sentence isn’t just namby-pamby non-objective, it’s a flat-out lie.
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