As Greg Sargent says, it's discouraging that the AP and other habitually tune out legitimate criticism while falling all over themselves to cater to the right wing juggernaut.
This is something we see over and over again. I don't know if it's just ingrained habit, a way of pleasing the bosses who run things, or what, but it's truly bizarre. The conservative critique of the week regularly frames literally every issue, usually helped along by their chief enabler Howie Kurtz.
