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    4 days ago

    She repeated Trump administration talking points that the highly sensitive information in the chat was not classified, though current and former U.S. officials have said the posting of the exact launch times of aircraft and times that bombs would be released before those pilots were even in the air would have been classified.

    Bondi also quickly pivoted to two Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Joe Biden, who found themselves under investigation but never charged for . . .

    AP, do you see why I laugh at you for being kicked out of the WH Briefing Room? Do you see this kid glove, tentative, mealy-mouthed reporting? You’ve done this for every bullshit rightwing powermongering fascist move since Reagan.

    Yes it’s professional. Yes it’s technically journalism. NO IT’S NOT RIGHT.

    For the apologists who will wail “What would you have them do???” I will start by saying I’d cut that bullshit out about the pivot to Democrats. That’s obviously Gish galloping and if you can’t see that, go sit at the kid’s table. I hear Brian Kilmeade is making fart noises with his armpits over there.

    We’ve got a lot of failures prior to and during this shitshow but the corporate news, of which AP is most definitely part of, is the first and foremost of failures.