Associated Press Lines A Pistol Up To Ted Cruz’s Brain

There are subtle subliminal messages, and then there are those that almost hit you right between the eyes.

From the hyper-partisan Associated Press (AP) — which, incidentally, still masquerades as actual journalism — on June 21, 2015:

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The image is even more edifying when you compare it to other AP photo’s over the past few years:

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And then there are these, some (but not all) of which also come from the AP:

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Good old-fashioned objective journalism. Where’s Noam Chomsky when you need him?

To be fair, the AP did today qualify their choice of photos, saying (and I quote):

“The images were not intended to portray Sen. Cruz in a negative light.”