WaPo's Kessler Gives 'GOP Cut CDC Funding' Four Pinocchios
Early this morning, Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's designated fact-checker gave the left's claims that Republicans alone were responsible for alleged "cuts" to Ebola research four Pinocchios (i.e., a "whopper").
That's nice, but it hardly undoes the damage news outlets like the Associated Press have inflicted on the truth in the apparent name of ginning up resentment among low-information…
WaPo Shields Dems from Scrutiny But Now Sees Md. 'Voter Discontent'
On page A3 of today's Washington Post, staffer Reid Wilson relayed the story of how "Voter discontent opens up more governor's races" in a reliably Obama-friendly corridor of the continental United States. "GOP offers surprising challenges in Northeast," notes the subheader for the story.
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Daily Kos Gleefully Boasted About Being Bribed by Mark Warner
The Washington Post has published a story with allegations that Senator Mark Warner attempted to bribe a Virginia state senator to remain at his post by making job offers to his daughter. If true it would not be the first time Warner has engaged in attempted bribery.
Back in 2006 when he was governor of the state, Warner used a plush party in Las Vegas in an attempt to sway the folks at the…
WashPost Actually Delivers Objective Reporting on Police Shooting
While outlets like MSNBC seem keen on exploiting the police shooting death of Vonderrit D. Myers to breathe new life into racial tensions stoked by the Michael Brown shooting, the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery and Kimberly Kindy can be commended for objective, balanced reporting noting "Few parallels between latest shooting, Ferguson" in the October 10 paper.
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Jonathan Capehart Hopes Mary Landrieu Can 'Wobble' to Re-Election
Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post believes that the possible key to Senator Mary Landrieu's re-election is knowing how to "Wobble." Yes, knowledge of a Louisiana dance step takes priority over a voting record or policy positions.
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ABC, NBC Continue to Omit Mention of Reported WH Prostitution Cover-Up
According to a report in The Washington Post, senior White House officials knew that an individual with the White House advance team had a prostitute spend the night with him as part of the 2012 Colombian prostitution scandal despite the White House previously denying any involvement during the official investigation.
After failing to cover the story on their morning newscasts, ABC and NBC…
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CBS Blasts GOP Campaign Ads on ISIS Since Obama 'Does Have a Strategy'
On Tuesday evening, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was the only broadcast network newscast to have any coverage of the upcoming midterm elections, which are four weeks away from Tuesday.
While that was the case, the just over two-minute-long segment wasn’t free of liberal bias, as it criticized Republican candidates for running ads on the issue of fighting the Islamic terrorist group…
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Ed Schultz: ‘People Are Better Off Today Than They Were 4 Years Ago'
Ed Schultz used his opening monologue during his MSNBC show on Tuesday to paint Republicans as the “desperate” and “delusional” party in trouble ahead of the midterm elections and informed his audience that “people are better off today than they were four years ago” (before dismissing the struggling wages in the country as “a different thing”). He began by dismissing the idea that Republicans…
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Alison Grimes Campaign Commercial So Deceptive It Earns 4 Pinocchios
Just how deceptive is Alison Grimes' campaign commercial attacking Senator Mitch McConnell for supposedly being "anti-coal?" So deceptive that even fact checker Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post has awarded it four Pinocchios for extreme mendacity.
WashPost Honors Gay Radio Host Who Told Gay GOP Voter to Drink Arsenic
The cover of Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine preaches the gay gospel again. Over an illustration of one groom helping another groom to the top of a wedding cake is the headline “The Gay Moment: How we got to a new American reality.”
Post editor Erica Johnston profiled gay activists Michelangelo Signorile and Human Rights Campaign boss Chad Griffin. One unleashed hate on the radio. The other's…
New WashPost Blogger Denounces GOP Denial of 'Science and Reality'
The Washington Post on Friday hired a new blogger for its Wonkblog: Chris Mooney, a bomb-thrower with two books attacking the idiocy/authoritarianism of Republicans. The Post somehow left out the titles in their joyous announcement. They are “The Republican War on Science” and “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science -- and Reality.”
Hiring Mooney away from the leftist…
'28 Words That Democrats Really Wish President Obama Didn’t Say'
There was a good reason for Democrat-friendly networks to skip Obama’s economic speech yesterday, as Curtis Houck reported. Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza was shocked the president seemed to hand Republicans a ready-made TV ad in the speech.
His headline was “28 words that Democrats really wish President Obama didn’t say today.”
Wash Post Admits Dems 'Near Panic,' But Downplayed Midterm Struggles
The Washington Post on Wednesday highlighted Democratic campaign e-mails for the 2014 midterms, admitting that liberals are sending out "frantic" e-mails about potential losses in the House and Senate. Writer Ed O'Keefe reasoned, "With Democrats expected to lose seats in the House and slipping behind Republican opponents in key Senate races, a sense of frustration and near-panic would be…
