Dan Zak

WaPo Highlights 'Progressive Alternative to the Tea Party', with Nascent 'Coffee Party'
By Ken Shepherd | February 26, 2010 | 12:00 PM EST

Washington Post's Dan Zak devoted a Style section front page feature today to liberals who are "[b]rewing a progressive alternative to the Tea Party."*

But as one reads Zak's article, it becomes clear the nascent "Coffee Party" movement is a decaf brew of mostly liberals whining about how the rabble are roused by the Tea Parties while they, the sophisticates "have real political dialogue with substance and compassion":

Furious at the tempest over the Tea Party -- the scattershot citizen uprising against big government and wild spending -- Annabel Park did what any American does when she feels her voice has been drowned out: She squeezed her anger into a Facebook status update.

let's start a coffee party . . . smoothie party. red bull party. anything but tea. geez. ooh how about cappuccino party? that would really piss 'em off bec it sounds elitist . . . let's get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion.

WaPo's Liberal Decade: 'We' Went from 'Hell' to 'Hope,' Cheered 'Tantalizing Evolution' Into Obama Era
By Tim Graham | December 31, 2009 | 8:22 AM EST

On the last day of 2009, The Washington Post revisited the decade from its own narrow liberal persective. Style section writer Dan Zak found "we cheered the inauguration of a black man" and suggested the "we" was appropriate because 93 percent of D.C. voters cast a ballot for Obama. That’s probably a lower percentage than the Washington Post staff. Zak offered Time magazine’s decade-from-Hell mantra as the declaration of Everyone:

WaPo Skipped Tea Party Protests, But Gives Big Play to...Opponents of Male Circumcision?
By Tim Graham | April 1, 2009 | 9:08 AM EDT

Typing in the words "tea party" into a Nexis search of The Washington Post finds nothing about protesters against Obama economic policies in the last six weeks – no coverage of the February 27 rally across from the White House, and no coverage of any other Tea Party across America. But Tuesday’s Washington Post showed you didn’t need large numbers of protesters to get a prominent feature story. The front of the Style section carried a story (complete with three photos) of a protest of "about 50 people" in front of the White House against....male circumcision.