WaPo Promotes Maddow Special on How McVeigh Echoes in 'Rising Tide of
April 19th, 2010 7:34 AM
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the horrific Oklahoma City bombing, and The Washington Post's Hank Stuever promoted MSNBC on the front page of the Style section -- because Rachel Maddow "has been having 1990s flashbacks with the anti-government vitriol that most recently accompanied the health-care reform debate."Stuever offered a preview of the left-wing propaganda to be unveiled tonight in…
Liberal WaPo Columnist Attends Tea Party Rally; Discovers Refreshing R
April 18th, 2010 8:39 PM
Robert McCartney, the liberal Washington Post columnist, has done something that Chris Matthews and his fellow leftist MSNBC hosts have yet to do: attend a tea party rally without being confrontational and/or snarky. McCartney went to a tea party with an open mind last week and this is what he discovered: I went to the "tea party" rally at the Washington Monument on Thursday to check out just…
Liberal Media-Speak: When a 'Stubborn Catholic' Loves Atheist Rants Ag
April 18th, 2010 7:52 AM
It's quite clever and misleading for Newsweek and The Washington Post to name their religion site "On Faith." It's a little like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals starting a website simply called "On Meat." Author Donna Freitas, called "The Stubborn Catholic," is absolutely thrilled with the idea that two very publicly vicious atheists want to arrest the Pope when he visits the United…
Investor's Business Daily: Climategate Gets a Whitewash
April 17th, 2010 7:53 AM
The editorial page at Investor's Business Daily noticed what the major media ignored or downplayed, once again: the latest Climategate development. They headlined their Friday editorial "Climategate Gets a Whitewash." The University of East Anglia commissioned two independent inquiries into what became known as the Climate-gate scandal. But just how "independent" was the latest report? IBD wasn't…
WaPo Columnist Celebrates Pro-life Pharmacy’s Closure
April 14th, 2010 2:37 PM
Petula Dvorark, Washington Post's designated church-basher, commemorated the closure of a Virginian "pro-life" pharmacy with snide glee in her April 13 column. "The Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy in Chantilly proudly and purposefully limited what it would stock on its shelves. But it turns out that no birth control pills, no condoms, no porn, no tobacco and even no makeup added up to one thing: No…
Brent Bozell Applauds Post's Milbank for Criticizing Obama's Disregard
April 14th, 2010 12:50 PM
Editor's Note: Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell released the following statement earlier today -- available here on his official Facebook page. The NewsBusters publisher praised Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank for denouncing the "clinic" that President Obama put on "for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press" in his April 14 column, "…
Meet Scott Wilson, Obama's Summit News Butler
April 14th, 2010 9:10 AM
Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson topped Wednesday's paper with a "news analysis" headlined "On world stage, Obama at ease as seminar leader." The word that came to mind wasn't "analysis." It was "unanimous." Everyone in Wilson's supine story praised Obama's command and personality. It's like Wilson was Obama's news butler at this summit:"He's in charge, he's chairing the meetings, and this…
WaPo Boosts Gibbs, Disses Press: 'Positive Coverage Has Always Been a
April 13th, 2010 7:05 AM
On Tuesday's front page, Washington Post reporter Jason Horowitz reported press secretary Robert Gibbs will eventually be promoted out of that pedestrian job of White House press secretary and become a senior strategist. Team Obama's disdain for their press enablers was a given: By and large, positive coverage has always been a fact of life in the Obama universe, so it's not surprising that the…
Ridiculous: WaPo Claims Stevens Exit Will 'Almost Certainly Mean a Mor
April 12th, 2010 7:49 AM
On the front of Sunday's Washington Post, Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes unfurled the first liberal spin line of the battle over a new Supreme Court justice: that there's no way whoever Obama nominates will be more liberal than retiring John Paul Stevens. Barnes said "almost certainly" the court will be more conservative after Obama's second nominee is confirmed.Can anyone imagine the media…
Washington Post Assaults Bob McDonnell With Seven Hit Pieces In One Da
April 7th, 2010 11:06 PM
The national media are outraged this week by an announcement from Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to observe April as Confederate History Month. Several news outlets have jumped on the story, but the most energetic complaints came from the Washington Post, which published more than half a dozen pieces in the same day. At this point it's safe to say the Post suffers from McDonnell Derangement…
Eugene Robinson: Biden Had A Better Idea On Afghanistan Than Obama
April 7th, 2010 1:27 PM
One of Barack Obama's biggest media cheerleaders on Tuesday said that Vice President Joe Biden's idea concerning managing the war in Afghanistan was better than the President's."I thought that the minimalist strategy that, that Joe Biden was, was apparently propounding, the anti-terror strategy as opposed to what we're effectively doing which is basically nation-building, I thought that Biden had…
WaPo Prints Attack On Rove from the Right, Ignores His Book-Tour Heckl
April 5th, 2010 11:04 AM
The Washington Post hasn't had time to focus on radical Code Pink protesters ruining Karl Rove's book signing in Beverly Hills, telling him he was going to "rot in hell." Now that Bush is out of office, they're hardly newsworthy, with only one mention this year, in a recent Dana Milbank column about Israel: "The liberal Code Pink group marched around the building hollering about 'apartheid'…
Special Super-Sized Notable Quotables: Celebrating ObamaCare, Demonizi
April 5th, 2010 9:17 AM
This week, the MRC’s regular Notable Quotables newsletter, documenting the latest outrageous quotes from the liberal media from the past two weeks, could not fit in its normal 3-page format, so we created a super-sized special edition, “Celebrating ObamaCare, Demonizing Its Opponents.” It’s chock full of quotes touting the wonders of the liberal health care scheme, and slamming the Tea Party and…
Even Obama's Fans Notice He's a Phony In How He Writes, Talks, and Eve
April 5th, 2010 7:30 AM
How phony is Barack Obama? PBS Washington Week host Gwen Ifill reviewed New Yorker editor David Remnick's new Obama book The Bridge in the Washington Post Outlook section Sunday, and she kept finding Obama is a Slick Barry, a "shape shifter." Obama even admitted to rhetoric what should be obvious -- how he changes "dialects" depending on the audience he's talking to: Obama cops to this. "The…