The Associated Press misquotes Al Gore

The AP's Larry Margasak:

Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush was interrupted repeatedly by applause as he called the anti-terrorism program "a threat to the very structure of our government."

Reuters' Tabassum Zakaria got it right:

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government."

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The problem is that most US news organizations use the AP wire services and will mistakenly imply that Al Gore is pro-terrorism, or at least against anti-terrorism (if you can distinguish the two). Unbiased media? Right.

Transcript of the speech at Rawstory.

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