AP Joins Mud-Tossing At Rahm Emanuel

The Associated Press has joined other media and some bloggers in throwing mud at Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff.

While The AP regularly issued glowing reports about Obama and pilloried John McCain and Sarah Palin during the campaign, several of its reporters now seem ready to throw Emanuel under the bus for his contacts with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich even though there's evidence Emanuel would have nothing to do with Blagojevich's "pay for play" scheme to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. The AP asserts that Emanuel's political ties to Blagojevich constitute "a troubling liability" despite the fact Emanuel, like the governor, has been a well-connected Illinois pol for years. It would be extra-ordinary if they did not have political ties.

Here's today's primary story from The AP:

Gov. Rod Blagojevich is legendary in Illinois political circles for not picking up the phone or returning calls, even from important figures like the state's senior senator, Dick Durbin.

But there was always one call Blagojevich regularly took, say his aides, and that was from Rahm Emanuel - his congressman, his one-time campaign adviser and, more recently, and troubling for Emanuel, one of his contacts with President-elect Barack Obama's transition staff.

The friendly rapport Blagojevich and Emanuel shared over the years has suddenly become a troubling liability for Emanuel and the new president he will serve as chief of staff.

Read the entire story at www.newsmax.com.

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