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THIS is totally unacceptable.

Ace asks:

Not sure what we can do about this.

Protein Wisdom writes:

Seriously, we need to raise hell about this.

I don’t know about “raising hell”, but this modest blog intends to do the following. From now on it will no longer reference or discuss any story of any kind that is credited to the Associated Press. Nor will it link to, or direct any reader to, any web site using the A.P. as a story source. (Yahoo for, say, our friends at Reuters or AFP is fine; but Yahoo for the Associated Press will NOT get a link, or so much as a mention.)

That’s all. Being A.P. customers (this blog is a customer, NOT a business) when visiting sites that use A.P. product (and therefore essentially giving the A.P. free advertising when referencing them), all other bloggers and web writers should consider doing the same. (Indeed, ALL readers, please also avoid the A.P. like the plague.) As Harry Truman would have said, if their advertising suffers eventually, then they’ll know they’re in hell.

Pass the word . . .

Reuters:

…Director Alex Gibney of documentary winner “Taxi to the Dark Side” — a look at the use of torture by the United States — also offered a message of optimism. “Let’s hope we can turn away from the dark side and return to the light,” Gibney said…

Yes, we can but hope. And Mr Gibney’s thoughtful entreaty is much welcome, even if perhaps likely to fall on many a deaf ear. For, alas, Americans have always unconscionably under-appreciated the singular moral sway emanating from well-regarded people who play pretend for a living men of the stage, who’d moved previously to nudge our hitherto rapaciously mis-governed country back onto the path of “the light”. Or, to put matters more succinctly, Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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Far more insightful, The Sunday Telegraph:

Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment (sic) with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks…

Thus another who looks good in a dress great brain, infected with “the virus”.

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Perhaps most surprising of all, this Washington Post op-ed piece headline:

Staying to Help in Iraq

Apparently, that activist/actoress has become some sort of disgraceful, far right fanatic? Of course not.  Remember, as Anorak tells us, “She has your attention. The details she leaves to others…”

Meaning, she’s an actor.