WaPo: Hagel a 'Mainstream Conservative'; No Mention of Hinting Possibl
September 10th, 2007 1:13 PM
Persistent Bush critic and recurring Sunday morning talk show fixture Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) is announcing his retirement from the U.S. Senate. Reporting the story in the Sunday paper, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Chris Cillizza described the Iraq war critic as a "mainstream conservative who raised his profile nationally through his fierce opposition to President Bush's Iraq policies…
Schumer Floor Speech Slandering U.S. Troops Ignored by Old Media
September 10th, 2007 12:05 AM
Bloggers have caught a politician saying one thing in a speech, while carrying a very different rendering of a critical passage at a supposed "transcript" of that speech. The difference is significant. The transcript whitewashes a slander on the performance of US troops in Iraq delivered by a United States senator. Specifically, New York's Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the…
WaPo Denounces Iraqi Market as 'Potemkin Village
September 6th, 2007 9:53 AM
Writing at National Review Online, Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War talks about the revitalized Dora Market in Baghdad as a sign of success in Iraq. Kagan attributes the Petraeus strategy significant credit and in doing so takes a swipe at the Washington Post for its slanted reporting on the Dora success (h/t Instapundit):In Wednesday’s Washington Post, Sudarsan Raghavan,…
WaPo Reports Another Clinton Campaign Finance Fiasco Media Will Ignore
September 3rd, 2007 12:55 PM
On Monday, the Washington Post broke the news of another major Hillary Clinton campaign finance fiasco that seems destined to be ignored or downplayed by media in much the same way previous instances of such behavior by the former First Lady avoided press scrutiny. After all, the media for seven years largely buried Hillary's involvement with convicted felon Peter F. Paul during her 2000…
MRC's Bozell Hits WaPo Double Standard in Pulling 'Opus' Cartoon
August 29th, 2007 10:46 AM
MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the August 29 "Fox & Friends" to discuss the Washington Post's double standards on religious sensitivity. As NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard reported on Sunday, the Post refused to run Berkeley Breathed's August 26 "Opus" cartoon in which flighty recurring character Lola Granola has declared herself a "radical…
WashPost Book Reviewer Decried How Author 'Publicly Caned' Katie Couri
August 28th, 2007 6:00 PM
The Washington Post on Tuesday published a book review of Ed Klein’s critical Katie Couric biography by reviewer Louis Bayard, who found the entire exercise of writing a Katie book distasteful, unnecessary, and sexist: “You may also wonder if the same book would have been written about a male broadcaster,” Bayard argued early on. He suggested Klein was a female-bashing brute:
