Okay. I was just at Atrios' site, and there is more about an AP writer named Nedra Pickler. If you take a look at her(?) writing style, you'll note an oddly disassociated manner. Try Googling.

Ms.(?) Pickler, in an effort to in her words, "Cover both sides of an issue," inserts the oddest of personal editorial in what should be straight news coverage. We here at PureBS™ are non-partisan. We simply point out that things are not always what they seem.

The thing that struck Atrios, and me as well, about her story in the Washington post here, is that in a straight news story with the byline Surging Front-Runner Dean Under Attack, Pickler adds this intuitive gem: "But when he criticizes Bush's links to Lay, Dean never mentions that Enron's mismanagement was not the result of the president's tax-cut package."

Odd to say the least. Nor does he(Howard Dean) mention the Invisible Pink Unicorn Theory to describe the universe. Both statements are equally spurious. Ms.(?) Pickler does not seem to be able to differentiate between hard news and editorial. I am certain that this is a blindspot that a large quantity of my fellow Americans have as well.

On a more interesting note, that paradigm of morality, Rush Limbaugh, has taken note of Ms.(?) Pickler's work and -- here's the shocker -- has thrown his support behind the AP reporter. Ms. Pickler's balancing act has not added much of value to the national discourse, and Rush's support may be an indication that Ms.(?) Pickler's job with the AP may be on life support. More to follow, I'm sure.

Today's reading assignments:

Salon..everything.

The NYT Reports on CT Governor John Rowland's(R-Reprehensible) shenanigans..Can you say, 'recall?' He may cede the office without another Californian style coup.

On an interesting note, Democratic frontrunner, Howard Dean, is winning converts as well as raking in the dough. Eveything that Dean has wanted, he has gotten. I read an article -- can't find it now -- that detailed Dean's long string of successes. With Gore's endorsement, he has gotten the inside the beltway nod that he was missing. I think that the media, in trying to make Gore's endorsement into a non-issue, have really created the story here.