Associated Press DC Chief Ron Fournier "hearts" the valiant Karl Rove: "KEEP UP THE FIGHT"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

AP'S DC CHIEF TO ROVE: "KEEP UP THE FIGHT"



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/aps-ron-fournier-to-karl_n_112696.html

Via Talking Points Memo: the House Oversight Committee has unearthed a key quote from the 50-page report on Pat Tillman - the former Arizona Cardinals star killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan under circumstances that the military labored to conceal from Tillman's family - and Jessica Lynch, who was caught up in some Iraq War mythmaking of her own.

On page 21 of the report, the committee reprints an email exchange between Ron Fournier - then a reporter for the Associated Press, now the head of the AP's Washington bureau - and Bush's chief adviser Karl Rove:

Rove exchanged e-mails about Pat Tillman with Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, under the subject line "H-E-R-O." In response to Mr. Fournier's e-mail, Mr. Rove asked, "How does our country continue to produce men and women like this," to which Mr. Fournier replied, "The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight."

An email to Fournier, seeking clarification on what "fight" he thought Rove was engaged in at the time, was not returned.

Update: The AP informs us that Fournier will be releasing a statement later tonight.

[ClassWarrior]

1. When's the AP statement expected? I wanna hear...

...what excuses this POS has.

NGU.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. He reportedly regrets his "breezy response."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3618969&mesg_id=3618969

:eyes:

:patriot:

[formercia]

3. "But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish"

Any other country would roll these crazies up and haul them off to jail before they had a chance to do the damage they have done.

[salin]

4. another "star struck" reporter...

who now runs the show at AP (at least washington coverage) and continues to carry water for the GOP. Talkingpointsmemo has done a great job of pointing out the very slanted and opinionated pieces emanating from the AP "newswire".

[Cha]

5. I always knew ron fournier

was a mediawhore bowing at the alter of the fascist karl rove. So someone got a hold of one of his emails to his idol!

Does "the Lord" also create mediawhores like ron fournier?