"CHARLES BABBINGTON, GET A NEW JOB!"

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Last night KO called out this AP shill for the Cons. His review was a hit piece that sounded like he wrote it before Bama even gave his speech.

“AP's Charles Babbington Is a... well... how can I put this... uh...A DICK! That Hasn't got a clue.
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By O¿O - August 29, 2008, 4:06AM

Just heard KO read "convention analysis" by someone named Charles Babbington (not sure on that spelling), that will be shipped out to papers everywhere saying how bland (my word) Obama's speech was.

Hell, EVEN Pat Buchanan "GUSHED" that it was a GREAT speech!

Can't find a link yet because it hasn't hit the morning papers. If you find one let US know.

It's 3:30 am I have just called the publisher of my local paper telling him if the AP is a part of their paper I won't be.”

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/aps-charles-babbington-is-a-we.php

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1. From HuffPo

MSNBC Host Rips AP Reporter's Analysis of Obama Speech


“NEW YORK In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles Babington an hour after Barack Obama had concluded his speech in Denver on Thursday night.

With rare exception, nearly all of the top commentators and reporters on the three cable news networks had hailed Obama's speech as something new and powerful, and filled with specifics, and predicted it would have a positive effect on his chances vs. John McCain. This hallelujah chorus included conservatives such as Bill Kristol and Pat Buchanan and the longtime Republican David Gergen, as well as Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams. Buchanan called it the best and most important political convention speech he had ever heard, going back 48 years.

So Olbermann was outraged that the AP's Babington had written, in his analysis of the speech, just off the wire, that Obama had tried nothing new and that his speech was lacking in specifics. He read the first few paragraphs on the air, lamented that it would be printed in hundred of newspapers on Friday, and concluded, "It is analysis that strikes me as having born no resemblance to the speech you and I just watched. None whatsoever. And for it to be distributed by the lone national news organization in terms of wire copy to newspapers around the country and web sites is a remarkable failure of that news organization.

"Charles Babington, find a new line of work."

Olberman even criticized the reporter on his time-keeping, noting that the article said the speech was 35 minutes long when it was, he said, actually 44 minutes long. A few minutes later, the AP copy showing up at news sites had been corrected to "44 minutes." Cont…

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844063

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2. Kicking My Own Up