Washington Post

WashPost Rehires Dave Weigel for Campaign Coverage, Fired In 2010 In Leftist 'JournoList' Scandal
By Tim Graham | July 8, 2015 | 5:17 PM EDT

The Washington Post announced Wednesday “We are very excited to announce that Dave Weigel will be joining the Post as a National Political Reporter. Dave will bring his one-of-a-kind perspective and voice to our campaign team.” Being a liberal isn’t “one-of-a-kind” at the Post, but let’s continue.

This is Weigel’s second spin around the Post, having resigned in 2010 over “JournoList,” an e-mail listserv of liberal journalists. The Post PR team completely ignored that, of course. Weigel’s idea of humor was to crack  "I hope he fails" about Rush Limbaugh after the radio host was hospitalized with chest pains.

ABC and NBC Use Hillary, ‘Worker’ at Trump Hotel Site to Continue Bashing Him on Illegal Immigration
By Curtis Houck | July 8, 2015 | 2:41 AM EDT

On Tuesday night, ABC and NBC reported on the Professional Golf Association’s (PGA) decision to cut ties with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his stance on illegal immigration and, predictably, the two networks deployed soundbites from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s CNN interview to bash Trump and the GOP as a whole. In addition, prompted by a Washington Post article, NBC Nightly News used a “worker” from the construction site of a Trump hotel in DC to suggest the candidate is hypocritical on the issue.

WashPost Mockery: '81 Things Mike Huckabee Has Denounced'
By Tim Graham | July 6, 2015 | 11:03 AM EDT

The Washington Post decided to spice up their thin Monday newspaper with a shameless blast of opposition research at a Republican presidential contender. The headline was “81 THINGS MIKE HUCKABEE HAS DENOUNCED: A catalogue of gripes spanning 40 years, straight from the Republican’s mouth.”

Before you read any further, you know it’s the liberal Post mocking a social conservative, and you cannot imagine how they would ever publish an article on the 81 things Hillary Clinton has denounced. You can imagine they’re shameless enough to avoid Bernie Sanders expounding on women wanting rape from 1972 (except for one online nod), but quote Huckabee extensively from 1973 and 1974.

WashPost Critic Adores Progressive Strains of 'Magic Mike,' Compares Strippers to... Priests
By Tim Graham | July 5, 2015 | 12:13 PM EDT

Like The New York Times, The Washington Post also undertook a political tour of the summer movies. Movie critic Ann Hornaday hailed Magic Mike XXL as a harbinger of more progressive male characters who are in touch with their “inner drag queens.”

Even stranger, Hornaday labored to compare the stripper corps of Magic Mike XXL to....mendicant priests? Since when do priests bump and grind?

Gay Journalist Whacks 'Slacktivists' Who Post Rainbow Profile Pictures on Facebook
By Melissa Mullins | July 5, 2015 | 7:21 AM EDT

Peter Moskowitz is a New York City-based reporter who recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post. Moskowitz is gay and he has a problem with all of you who slapped a rainbow on your cute little Facebook profile picture.  He says that slapping a rainbow on your profile picture is not activism, rather “slacktivism”. Ouch!

Why? Because You don’t understand his struggle. You cheapened the struggle with this rainbow on your little Facebook profile photo. That's a sore winner.

Obama Administration Turns Screws on Redskins Over Name
By Dylan Gwinn | July 4, 2015 | 2:42 PM EDT

Remember that time the Obama administration took a courageous stand against the face of evil and racism in our time? Me neither. No, instead the Obama Administration has contented itself with throwing down the gauntlet in the face of an NFL team.

If the Redskins want to move back to the District of Columbia, they need to cave and change their allegedly racist name.

In Article on George Takei, WashPost Avoids Racist Remark on Thomas
By Scott Whitlock | July 3, 2015 | 10:19 AM EDT

The Washington Post on Wednesday completely sanitized a racist remark liberal activist George Takei made against Clarence Thomas. The 600 word article spun, "George Takei has responded to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the case that made marriage equality universal." Yet writer Soraya Nadia McDonald never mentioned that the Star Trek actor snarled that the African American justice is a "clown in black face." Instead, McDonald focused on a less-incendiary op-ed by Takei for MSNBC. 

Artist Defends Using Iconic Patriotic Image to Make Gay Rights Statement
By Kristine Marsh | July 2, 2015 | 3:47 PM EDT

An image many call provocative, if not offensive, has caused  an uproar on social media platforms since last week. The photo, taken by gay artist Ed Freeman of young men holding up a rainbow flag, replicates the iconic picture of Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.

The Washington Post decided to highlight the controversy July 1 and let the artist defend himself. Freeman told the Post that the image originally for a cover of the gay magazine, Frontiers, was taken over ten years ago. After the Supreme Court ruling last week, someone shared the image and people started sending him hate mail, even death threats.

'Journalist': Objective Reporting Doesn’t Apply to ‘Fundamentalist Wackjobs’
By Sarah Stites | July 2, 2015 | 9:20 AM EDT

Objectivity doesn’t matter when you have an agenda to push. So admits reporter Jessica Bennett in an article for the Washington Post. 

When Bennett interned for the Seattle Daily in 2003, she excitedly wrote about Canada’s legalization of gay marriage. “I was 19,” she recalled, “and picked a fight with my editor after being asked to call a fundamentalist wackjob for ‘an anti-marriage quote’ – you know, to show we were objective.” Sadly, she was unable to exclude that, er, bigoted, homophobic, hateful viewpoint.

WashPost Gay Advice: The Christian Right Needs to Surrender, Like the Confederates
By Tim Graham | June 28, 2015 | 8:16 AM EDT

Last year, The Washington Post gave a gay activist named Steven Petrow a regular column called “Civilities.” This quickly became a farce, since Petrow was a fan of outing...and Dan Savage.

The original conceit was that this gay Mr. Manners was going to explain to the readers how to negotiate the Brave New World of mangled pronouns and how to address gay newlyweds on your Christmas cards and so on. Instead, Petrow often just pounds the table complaining about the slow pace of the “revolution.” On Saturday, he wrote a trash-talking column about “The Supreme Court’s Sore Losers.”

WashPost: Southern Whites are ‘Monsters’ and ‘We Are All Dylann Roof’
By Bryan Ballas | June 23, 2015 | 9:36 PM EDT

Following tragedies such as this mass murder in South Carolina, most people resort to prayer for the families of the victims. At The Washington Post, Baltimore City Paper writer Baynard Woods was preoccupied with transforming the murderous rampage of a single person into a discourse on the collective guilt of white racism in the most over-the-top manner as possible.    

Washington Post Boosts Slam of Jindal: 'There's Not Much Indian Left'
By Matthew Balan | June 23, 2015 | 4:21 PM EDT

On Tuesday, the Washington Post promoted an article touting how  "many" supposedly view Bobby Jindal as "a man who has spent a lifetime distancing himself from his Indian roots" by Tweeting a professor's eyebrow-raising claim about the Louisiana governor: "There's not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal." In Wednesday's newspaper, that quote served as the big headline on page A-9.