Let Me introduce you fine folks to the author of today’s hit piece on Senator Thompson

Let me introduce you to the author of the Fred Thompson lobbyist AP article.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…. Ms. Travis Loller.

Here’s a little background, just to show how unbiased Ms. Loller is. From the lefty news source, motherjones:

Three American citizens, along with nine other foreigners, were deported from Mexico on April 12, 1998 for alleged collusion with the Zapatista rebels (EZLN). The woman, Travis Loller, 26, and two men, Michael Sabato, 30, and Jeffrey Conant, 30, are part of an American relief group called Intercambio de Tecnologia Apropiada (ITA) or, in English, Appropriate Technology Exchange. The Mexican government accused the three of agitating for the rebel army that’s been struggling in the southeastern state of Chiapas for over four years in an effort to win basic civil rights and gain land reform for the indigenous Indians in the region.

The three Americans have extensive activist histories, having worked for reproductive rights, the homeless and protests against the Gulf War, the Rodney King verdict and Propositions 187 and 209. Ironically, their time in Mexico was spent not on direct politic organizing but on community improvement projects in the poverty stricken villages of Chiapas, including building potable water systems, latrines, composting, and soil improvement. They even had plans to help construct micro-hydroelectric plants. Sabato and Conant have been working on and off in Chiapas since August of ’95, Loller since January of ’98. They are among the thousands of non-Mexicans to visit Chiapas who’ve found the Zapatistas’ non-hierarchical, consensus-based, experience-driven revolution to be a refreshing, inspiring change from the traditional Marxist-Leninist rebel movements. Loller tells an amusing story about a group of Spanish anarchists who came to Chiapas bearing books by Kropotkin, Bakunin, Marx, Lenin and other lefty theoreticians in order to indoctrinate the locals. When the Indians expressed profound disinterest in how some dead Europeans thought a revolutionary society ought to be created, the academes left in a huff, proclaiming that the Zapatistas “weren’t true revolutionaries”.

and some more:

Back in Berkeley, Travis Loller was tired of her life. In 1991, the Gulf War riots and the upheaval that erupted when the University used part of the legendary People’s Park (located on University property) to build volleyball courts had drawn her into the orbit of radical politics. As a resident of a student co-op, she watched as one lonely activist for the feed-the-homeless group Food Not Bombs used the kitchen to cook meals day in and day out. Gradually she began to help out, and soon she was living the life of a dedicated young radical of the stripe that Berkeley so easily seems to spawn. But after bopping around the radical left scene for a couple of years, even helping Jorge translate the Marcos communiqués, Loller felt disillusioned and lost. Many of the leftist institutions she had worked on had worn her down; Food Not Bombs and other projects seemed to take a lot of effort just to keep them afloat, and somehow serving lunch at People’s Park no longer felt like changing the world.

“But then I remembered that Jorge and a couple other people had gone down to Mexico and had just gone out into the f___ing jungle and did this interview with Marcos,” says Loller. “And it was a great interview, one of the best things I had ever read. That someone I knew had done that — I mean, it certainly wouldn’t have occurred to me. Up here, I just didn’t think that we were accomplishing that much. Around December [1995], Jorge came over to my house, and I was telling him how frustrated I was. And he said, ‘Why don’t you come to Chiapas with us?’ I said, ‘I can’t go to Chiapas! There’s no way.’ But then I thought some more and quit my job, sold my car, quit all my activist work, and cleared out my bank account. I was ready for, well, whatever.”

Fair, balanced, and unbiased in the AP???