Don Surber:

Those mean Republicans cut funding for the Woodstock museum. They really are against education.

At least according to the Associated Press.

In a bizarre story that pitted hippies and townspeople against those meany Republicans, AP reported that the plucky Woodstock nation would open the Woodstock museum despite those meany Republicans.

Nyah.

The Man can’t keep them down.

Completely absent in the AP story is Alan Gerry, one of the co-founders of Woodstock. Now a billionaire, Gerry donated thousands to the campaigns of New York’s senators who, surprise, surprise, sponsored the $1 million pork barrel for Woodstock.

The guy is worth at least 1,000 times that million. He could have forked it over and kept 99.9% of his wealth.

Instead of mentioning Gerry, AP took a shot at John McCain, noting: “This week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tried to capitalize on the brouhaha over the earmark, running a TV ad that mocks fellow presidential candidate Clinton for the spending proposal. The ads juxtapose psychedelic images with those of McCain strapped to a bed as a POW in Vietnam. McCain, a Navy pilot, was shot down in 1967 and spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison.”

Yes, how dare McCain answer a direct question on Woodstock like this: “Now my friends, I wasn’t there. I’m sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was, I was tied up at the time.”

Objective journalists would have quoted McCain directly and let the reader discern a meaning instead of paraphrasing McCain.