Essay: The Washington Post, Journalistic Magicians

July 8th, 2008 4:03 PM
They make Reverend Wright and Trinity United disappear The Media,Lining it Up And for their next trick, the media will stuff Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s liberalism back into his hat. On Sunday, the Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman gave us a 1,152 word news-ish story entitled “Obama Addresses His Faith”, which was a glowingly open forum for Obama to deliver “a highly personal account of…

On Climate, A Little More Washington Post Bias

July 8th, 2008 3:43 PM

WaPo Website Resurrects 2001 'Racist' Charge Against Helms

July 7th, 2008 3:09 PM
My colleague Tim Graham brought to my attention earlier today that WashingtonPost.com's front page today teased two opinion pieces on the late Sen. Jesse Helms. The first was by a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer who lauded the late North Carolina Republican as a champion of liberty and staunch opponent of Communist repression. The second was a rehashed column from seven years…

WaPo Challenges SCOTUS on Anti-Death Penalty Ruling

July 6th, 2008 12:54 PM
Here's something you don't see every day: a major American newspaper admonishing the Supreme Court for ruling against the death penalty.Yet, that's not even close to the oddest aspect of Saturday's editorial by the Washington Post, for the paper agreed with the Court's 5-4 decision to ban the death penalty for those convicted of child rape, but felt compelled to expose an error in how the…

WaPo Addresses Obama's Faith -- With NO Wright

July 6th, 2008 7:43 AM

Washington Post & Other Papers Lose 27th Amendment to the Constitution

July 4th, 2008 1:16 AM

Obama's Not Triangulating; He's 'Post-Partisan

July 2nd, 2008 6:41 AM
He ain't triangulating, he's my post-partisan.  That's Eugene Robinson's innovative new MSM means of covering for Barack Obama.  As Obama sprints toward the center and away from many of the positions that won him the nomination from the liberal Dem base, WaPo columnist Robinson has suggested that the nominee isn't engaging in the kind of cynical "triangulating" that made Bill Clinton famous.  No…

NY Times Huffs at 'Entirely False Rumors' About Obama in 'Small-Town A

July 1st, 2008 6:33 PM
Tuesday's New York Times report by Jeff Zeleny, "Campaign Flashpoints: Patriotism and Service" covered the back and forth between the McCain and Obama camps over a controversial comment by retired general and Obama adviser Wesley Clark about McCain's lack of qualifications to be president.In response to a question by Bob Schieffer on the CBS Sunday talk show "Face the Nation," Clark said of John…

'Conservative Court' That 'Made Bush President' Now 'Balanced

June 29th, 2008 12:21 PM
As a deeply divided Supreme Court issued 5-4 rulings the past few weeks bouncing from liberal to conservative interpretations of the law, something was woefully missing from the coverage: journalists apologizing to the nation for regularly insinuating that the Court's December 2000 decision concerning Bush v. Gore was politically based.After all, for seven and a half years, a regular media meme…

WaPo After Free Republic Again, Now Over Barack-is-a-Muslim Email

June 28th, 2008 9:42 PM
The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post's Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered that Freepers are to blame, if not initially responsible, for floating the Barack-is-a-Muslim chain…

Obama Religious Affairs Adviser: 'Jesus Was an Illegal Alien

June 27th, 2008 8:59 PM

WaPo: Scalia Says 'Hear, Hear' to Machine Guns in D.C

June 26th, 2008 9:10 PM
It didn't take long for the Washington Post to weigh in on the wrong side of the Second Amendment issue, did it? The Post's Colbert I. King could not contain the disgust he feels for at least one part of the Constitution more in his response to the Supreme Court's Second Amendment ruling today. He flipped his top and went so far off the deep end that he seemed to imagine that Justice Scalia just…

Stephanopoulos Hosts Democrat's Book Party

June 26th, 2008 9:01 AM
George Stephanopoulos might be Chief Washington Correspondent of ABC News, but that apparently doesn’t stop him from hosting partisan book parties at his Georgetown home for Democratic authors trying to help the Democrats "get religion" and nab some more voters of faith. In Thursday’s Washington Post, religion reporter Michelle Boorstein wrote a story boosting the new book by Michael Sean Winters…

Post Nader Profile Says Obama's Plenty Liberal

June 25th, 2008 7:53 AM
Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi profiled leftist crusader Ralph Nader on Wednesday as he mounts another hopeless presidential campaign. Nader dismissed Barack Obama as a corporate tool, but late in the article, Farhi suggested Obama's liberal enough to prevent Nader crossovers. Could Nader hurt in Ohio, or Florida? Farhi wrote: Forget the political calculus. Obama, the most liberal candidate…