AP Deletes Own Absurd Texas Voter ID Claim

NewsBusters ^ | July 12, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine how much laughter would be induced by a young person who claimed an inability to find work because he or she lacked the time to obtain a Social Security card. Even more laughable would be someone who takes the time to fly from Texas to Washington, D.C. in order to testify at a trial yet claims she can't find the time to obtain a voter identification card. Well, Henry Jackson of the Associated Press actually wrote that up with a straight face until AP was forced to delete it after the sheer absurdity of it was pointed out by J. Christian Adams of PJ Media.  Here is the AP laughline care of Adams before it was deleted in sheer embarrassment:

Victoria Rose Rodriguez, 18, told a federal court in Washington that she had limited documentation — a birth certificate, a high school transcript and a student ID card with a photo on it — but is currently a registered voter in Texas. She said her parents are too busy to take her or her twin sister to get the new voter identification cards required by the law.

[GOPJ]

A much loved family member of mine wrote for the AP for 20 years ... before switching to newspaper writing for 30 years. So, I know you're right - they were the gold standard.

It's sad the above story was written as coming from the "AP".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The guys I knew at the AP bureau were all pros, good writers who could cover sports, business or calamities.
I almost went to work for the AP in Des Moines in 1978 when I was covering the statehouse but I was considering another profession at the time.
I bailed in 1980 for sales and marketing.

[cpa4you]

Don’t you have to show a government issued photo ID at the air port?

[TurboZamboni]

sounds like she’s an Occutard. does momma still change her poopy diapers?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

AP was once the gold standard of news reporting.

Yeah, but then . . .

. . . and where, exactly, do you think CBS gets - and got - its news and its slant from in the first place??

By homogenizing journalism and making journalists comfortable, the AP corrupted journalism. Setting journalists apart from “we the people" was always intrinsic to wire service journalism.

[GOPJ]

The teflon coating’s not working like it did... Thank God for the internet.

[GOPJ]

I bailed in 1980 for sales and marketing.

You made the right choice...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

AP is a coop, owned by the newspapers it serves.