WashPost Editor Infuriated by Trump Immunity Appeal Delaying a Trial

February 6th, 2024 11:50 AM

Trump lost an appeal on Tuesday on his claim of presidential immunity against prosecution by special counsel Jack Smith. But Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus let the cat out of bag on their hopes for lawfare to ruin Trump's campaign. Her column was headlined "Slowpoke federal appeals court puts 2024 election in jeopardy." For whom?

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Marcus Attacks GOP For 'Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power'

December 16th, 2023 10:02 AM

In a surprising development, PBS NewsHour’s Friday weekly news recap featured almost a debate between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus on House Republicans formally approving an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with the former wondering what the big deal is and the latter labeling it a “shameful misuse of the…

Ruth Marcus and the Alarmed, Oblivious Washington Post

November 11th, 2023 4:00 PM

Over there at the left-wing bastion that is The Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus is alarmed. 

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PBS: Dems Should Be More ‘Grateful’ Biden Is Their ’24 Candidate

August 19th, 2023 12:05 PM

On Friday’s NewsHour, PBS’s “conservative” pundit David Brooks sound like a Biden re-election flack, touting the President’s “incredibly strong economic recovery,” his “pretty good international peacekeeping efforts,” and who “sends off all the right cultural messages.....Democrats are not grateful enough for what they have.”

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PBS: 'Sickening' GOP Calls Trump Indictment 'Selective Prosecution'

June 10th, 2023 9:50 AM

New York Times columnist and the supposedly conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s weekly Friday Brooks and Capehart panel was dismayed that even “supposedly mature and moderate” Republicans were decrying President Trump’s latest indictment as “selective prosecution.” Washington Post columnist and pinch hitter Ruth Marcus went even further, labelling it “sickening.”

It's Time The Washington Post Comes Clean on Their Thomas Attacks

May 6th, 2023 4:00 PM

Back there in the stone age of last month, here was the headline on a Washington Post column from associate editor and columnist Ruth Marcus: 

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MSNBC: 'Really Disturbing' to Play Thomas 'High-Tech Lynching' Video

May 2nd, 2023 2:55 PM

Washington Post associate editor Ruth Marcus joined Tuesday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to talk about the day’s Senate hearing on “ethics reform” and to claim that “any reasonable person” should conclude it is “all so really disturbing” that Republicans played clips of Clarence Thomas in his 1991 confirmation hearing talking about a “high-tech lynching.”

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'This Is a Problem' NBC Panics Over More Bad Polling for Dems

April 17th, 2022 2:38 PM

On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, anchor Chuck Todd and his panelists were clearly concerned about some recent polling that shows voters under 35 years old, and Hispanic voters are starting to “peel away” from Joe Biden and the Democrat Party which is disastrous news for congressional Democrats this November. 

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Pants on Fire: WashPost Editor Pretends Kavanaugh Was Never Smeared

March 28th, 2022 7:24 AM

Was this epic shamelessness or remarkable amnesia? Washington Post deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus penned a piece in the Sunday paper headlined "Confirmation hearings? More like defamation hearings." Online, the headline was "Forget advise and consent. This is smear and degrade." It's like nothing ever happened to Brett Kavanaugh.

Editor’s Pick: Right Scoop on SCOTUS Hypocrisy of WashPost’s Marcus

March 21st, 2022 11:56 AM

On Sunday, The Right Scoop’s Fred T. reported on a left-wing columnist and editorial page editor getting caught in stunning hypocrisy when it came to her treatment of Supreme Court nominees: “Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus says a SCOTUS seat is too important to do fact-checking or truthfulness. Except when she says the opposite. So just like everyone else in the media all the time.”…

EYE ROLL: WashPost Covid Karen Castigates Gorsuch for Not Wearing Mask

January 10th, 2022 3:19 PM

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments about the legality of federal vaccine mandates, a certain Covid Karen at the Washington Post is really irked about something vaguely related: Masks. The deputy editorial page editor and longtime columnist for said periodical, Ruth Marcus, went postal because Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was not wearing a mask while hearing oral arguments…

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MSNBC Books Ex-Planned Parenthood Boss to Say Govt. Has 'Failed Women'

April 30th, 2020 8:25 PM
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell is determined show to prove that in any crisis, women are the hardest hit. Mitchell invited former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post on at the conclusion of Wednesday show for a gratuitously divisive segment that argued women have it hardest during the current pandemic and the answer is to enact longstanding left-wing…

NY Times Still Trashing Kavanaugh: 'Biggest Drinker in Our Class'

January 12th, 2020 9:00 PM
Former New York Times editorial board member Adam Cohen, who once served as lawyer for the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, reviewed Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus’s book on the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. (The book’s title gives the slant away: “Supreme Ambition -- Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.”) Cohen’s review unloaded a cheap shot in the text box: “‘If you had…
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Marcus: Republicans Won't Accept 'Facts' on Kavanaugh, Impeachment

December 3rd, 2019 6:55 PM
Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus bashed the right as having trouble "accepting the facts,” on Morning Joe Tuesday. She was on MSNBC plugging her new anti-Kavanaugh book “Supreme Ambition,” which compares last year’s Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings to the present day impeachment hearings. In it, Marcus argues that Republicans were unwilling to believe “the evidence”…