Associated Press Resorts to Blatant Lies In Last-Ditch Effort to Save Dick Lugar. And, Being the AP, They Fail. Miserably.

Indiana's Tea Party-backed Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has just crushed RINO hack Dick Lugar in the GOP Primary.

With that as breaking news, please consider last night's effort by the AP to prop up a big government, career politician like Lugar: Democrats may benefit in tea party backfire:

A challenge to a Republican stalwart in the Senate in Tuesday's Indiana primary election could, once again, backfire and play into the hands of Democrats who are struggling to retain control of the upper chamber in Congress.

The insurgent tea party wants to eject moderate Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in favor of a hardline conservative. Lugar and Utah Sen. Orin Hatch, who also faces a tea party opponent in that state's primary in late June, are the two longest serving Republicans in the Senate. The tea party movement, which advocates small government, deep spending cuts and no tax increases, has labeled both senators as Washington insiders and castigates them for compromising with Democrats over their long careers.

Polls in Indiana show, however, that tea party backing for state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, a deeply conservative Republican, could produce a replay of Senate elections in 2010. Then, tea party-backed Senate candidates ousted the party establishment's choice in several state primaries. But the more extreme candidates cost the Republicans possible Senate pickups in the general election in Colorado, Delaware and Nevada, leaving the Senate narrowly in Democrats' hands...

...in 2010 ... the tea party forced extreme conservative Senate candidates onto the ballot only to see them defeated in the general election.

...While tea party-backed Senate candidates stumbled in 2010, the organization was wildly successful in producing a Republican sweep that returned the party to control in the House of Representatives. But there are increasing signs that voters may have buyers' remorse, given that the uncompromising tea-party dominated freshman class in the House produced utter legislative gridlock in Congress...

Do you like the adjectives?

When was the last time an AP article labeled a Leftist like Chuck "Schmucky" Schumer a hardline liberal? Or a dunce like "Little" Dick Durbin a deeply progressive Democrat?

That would be never.

Oh, and did I mention the fact that Tea Party-backed conservative Senate candidates who won included Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey?

I'm not sure why any newspaper would pay for a failing "news" service like the Associated Press, when its agenda becomes more transparent by the day -- and when higher quality content is available all over the web. But perhaps that explains the continued, catastrophic meltdown of newspapers like The Washington Post, whose ad revenue dropped a shocking 17 percent year-over-year.