Submitted by Alfred J. Lemire, Jul 6, 2007 10:52

Ms. deRussy's views may not have pleased leftists like Mr. Spitzer, but he should have kept her on. She was informed and intelligent. The leftist majority at the Board of Trustees needed her to keep them from straying too far from good sense. From a distance, the more leftist state of Massachusetts, the McCall appointment smells more than the deRussy departure. [This writer wishes he could find good news somewhere. Yesterday, Power Line found two smelly AP headlines: Analysis: Thompson Lacking Substance and Obama Says He Is Emissary for Change. Neither headline was true. Liz Sidoti wrote a tough, negative article on Thompson, questioning him on his abortion policy, etc. (Bloomberg News also had a negative report on Mr. Thompson.) Mike Glover wrote a kissy-kissy on Obama, which questioned that candidate not at all. (He also had Obama "wielding a club in a velvet glove." Ugh!) [The AP, as this former reporter knows, has slipped. Whenever one thinks its articles are way too partisan and inept, one thinks, as a pessimist/realist, that the AP will get worse. Well, it has gotten worse.]

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