AP Publishes McCain-Bashing Bailout Piece Olbermann Should Love

Noel Sheppard
September 26th, 2008 10:42 AM
The Associated Press's Charles Babington, the journalist Keith Olbermann attacked in August for having the nerve to criticize Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, wrote a McCain-bashing article Thursday evening that should get a standing ovation from the "Countdown" host.The piece entitled "Dems, Some in GOP Question McCain's Intervention" probably evoked so much applause…
 

Olbermann Slams AP Writer Who Didn't Like Obama's Speech

Noel Sheppard
August 29th, 2008 7:26 AM
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann made his support for Barack Obama even clearer Thursday when moments after the junior senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as president, the "Countdown" host assailed an Associated Press writer for having the nerve to not be as enthralled with the Messiah's address as he was.In Olbermann's crosshairs on this occasion was Charles Babington who penned an…
 

AP's Babington Fears Willie Horton/Helms Attacks on Obama

Tim Graham
June 23rd, 2008 7:23 PM
AP political reporter Charles Babington, who recently touted "ample evidence that Obama is something special," is now warning that Obama is bracing against "race-based ads." Recent examples of "racially tinged" TV images like Obama wearing a turban and native Kenyan gear are "harbingers" of conservative 527-group ads to come. Babington then typically recounted the usual liberal-media suspects on…
 

AP: 'There's Ample Evidence that Obama is Something Special

Brent Baker
May 17th, 2008 5:16 PM
Catching up with a fawning Associated Press story on Barack Obama from last Saturday, “Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history,” on Friday the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto ridiculed the sycophant approach taken by the AP's Charles Babington, formerly of the Washington Post. Babington trumpeted in the May 10 dispatch: “There's ample evidence that Obama is something special…