Hearing on IRS With Lerner Taking the Fifth? Newspapers Had No Front P

May 23rd, 2013 11:27 PM
Believe it or not, none of the largest national newspapers put an article on Wednesday’s IRS hearings on the front page. The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal had a picture of Lois Lerner, but sent the reader to an inside page for the story. The New York Times and USA Today offered no picture, either. USA Today has an excuse: it put Lerner taking the Fifth on Wednesday’s front page…

Who's Not Helping Obama? David Plouffe Derides Reporters In WashPost a

May 23rd, 2013 3:38 PM

As the Obama staff labors to deny they’re waging what’s being called “Obama’s war on journalism,” it might not help to have journalists mocked as fussy “figure skating judges.” In today’s Washington Post that’s what we read from David Plouffe as he defended the White House from the “minutiae” that the White House counsel urgently wanted to keep Obama clueless about a Treasury Department…

Milbank Slams Obama on James Rosen Probe: 'As Flagrant an Assault on C

May 22nd, 2013 8:05 AM
Up until now, the funniest thing Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has said in the Obama years is “I think the media would love to have an Obama scandal to cover.” Well, Milbank has finally found a scandal that upsets him: the leak investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen. “The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s…

WashPost Poll Finds Obama Approval Unaffected, President 'More Focused

May 21st, 2013 10:13 PM
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday's front page that their ABC-Post poll showed Obama’s approval rating remained steady, with 51 percent approving and 44 percent disapproving. Then came the Post polling comparison to uncaring Republicans. Dan Balz and Jon Cohen reported: “A bare majority of Americans say they believe that Obama is focused on issues that are important to them personally;…

Which Way Is It? ‘Scandals Threaten Obama’s Agenda’ Or Obama

May 21st, 2013 2:01 PM
Contrasting headlines, over different polls taken by the two newspapers, on the front pages of Tuesday’s USA Today and Washington Post. USA Today -- “Poll: Scandals threaten Obama’s agenda” Washington Post – “Poll: President holds firm amid controversies” Images after the jump.

WashPost's Pincus Steadfastly Defends Obama/Holder DOJ's Handling of A

May 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
At this point it's become abundantly clear that the Obama/Holder Justice Department went overboard in its overzealous, subpoena-happy probe of Associated Press journalists. We also know from the Washington Post's reporting, that the administration was peeved about the timing of the AP story in question, not so much the content, and that the AP's president is on record slamming the  DOJ for an "…

MSNBC Slams 'Scandal' of GOP Vote to Repeal ObamaCare

May 20th, 2013 5:24 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:

WashPost 'Express' Tabloid Cover Laments: How Can Obama 'Break from th

May 20th, 2013 12:16 PM
While the the front page of today's Washington Post is actually reporting significant developments in two of Barack Obama's trifecta of scandals, the Washington Post Company-owned free tabloid the Express is busy lamenting if the president will ever get  "A Break from the Storm?" Perhaps, as "advisers say," he "should stage a major economic speech to drown out the noise [emphasis mine] of…

Washington Post Fact Checker Gives 'A Bushel of Pinocchios' to IRS's L

May 20th, 2013 10:00 AM
Of all the scandals plaguing the Obama administration, the one involving the Internal Revenue Service appears to be the one that even liberal news outlets deem serious. Count Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler amongst the concerned, for on Monday he actually gave the IRS's Lois Lerner "a bushel of Pinocchios" for statements she has made about her organization's targeting of…

It Gets Worse: WashPost Reports Obama DOJ Also Spied on James Rosen of

May 20th, 2013 7:16 AM
The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn't "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn't in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply…

WashPost 'On Faith' Editor Sally Quinn Blames Female-hating Christians

May 19th, 2013 8:00 AM
The Washington Post made a fool of its corporate self by starting a website called “On Faith” and putting at its head the secularist Sally Quinn. Oh, she claims to be interested by religion – just as King Herod thought Christ’s miracles sounded amusing, like he was a hippie magician like Doug Henning. In Saturday’s paper, Quinn turned dead serious about sexual assault in the military, even…

Politico Ignores Govt.-AP Timing Discussions in Saying 'Veteran Lawyer

May 18th, 2013 10:39 AM
In a story appearing this morning at the Politico about the Department of Justice's broad and unannounced subpoenas of the April and May 2012 personal and business phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press involving 20 phone lines and involving over 100 reporters and editors, James Hohmann found several "veteran prosecutors" who aren't necessarily outraged by what most…

WashPost's Milbank: GOP Should 'Waste' Time So 'They'll Be of Less Har

May 17th, 2013 6:22 PM
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's PoliticsNation show on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank mocked House Republicans for repeatedly holding unsuccessful votes to repeal ObamaCare as he suggested they should continue to "waste" time so "they'll be less of a harm to the country" because that way "they're not cutting food stamps." Milbank:

WashPost Loved Henry Waxman, But Bashes Darrell Issa 'Feverishly Chasi

May 17th, 2013 10:27 AM
When ultraliberal Henry Waxman ran the House Government Reform Committee, The Washington Post didn't often  suggest he was a fierce partisan or ideologue. Instead, former Washington Post managing editor Robert Kaiser praised him in a book review headlined "Moustache of Justice." (The Waxman lovers even have a mug.) Kaiser cooed, “Henry Waxman is to Congress what Ted Williams was to baseball…