WashPost Econ Columnist SHREDS Dems & Media for ‘Free Lunch’ Agenda

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March 9th, 2021 10:20 AM

Outgoing Washington Post economic columnist Steven Pearlstein spent his last column ripping apart the utopian borrow and spend fantasies of Democrats and the liberal media.

On CNBC's Kudlow, Bozell Slams Media Double Standard on Ideological Bi

May 1st, 2013 3:17 PM
"If you're going to say that a known conservative entity like the Koch brothers should not be getting into the business of dictating what a news operation should do, what does that tell you about Warren Buffett," or the Sulzburger or Graham families behind the New York Times and Washington Post respectively, Brent Bozell argued on the April 30 edition of CNBC's Kudlow Report. Bozell also noted…

Quiz: Which Liberal Ex-Reporter Is Acting Like a Bigger Jerk

October 6th, 2012 10:56 PM
Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post and Timothy Egan at The New York Times both served as reporters before unleashing their opinions as columnists. Both are passionate liberals. Recently both men wrote arrogant jeremiads. So which article made its author look more like a jerk? It might depend on which group you sympathize with -- Pearlstein went after Mitt Romney types in finance, while…

Selling Socialism: The Media's Campaign for ObamaCare

March 21st, 2012 10:00 AM
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, but if the media were the judges, the Court would rule 9-0 in favor of it. During its coverage of the health care debate, the liberal press never permitted questions about ObamaCare’s legality to interfere with their dream of a government takeover of the health care sector. Starting even before Barack…

WaPo Columnist: GOP Slogan Should Be 'Repeal the 20th Century

September 12th, 2011 6:59 AM
On the front of Sunday's Business section, Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein slammed GOP candidates: "If you came up with a bumper sticker that pulls together the platform of this year’s crop of Republican presidential candidates, it would have to be: Repeal the 20th century. Vote GOP." Pearlstein seemed especially insulted that Gov. Rick Perry would suggest John Maynard Keynes and…

WaPo Hawking $300 Online 'Master Class' Course on Economic Literacy

May 18th, 2011 10:30 AM
The Washington Post hopes you may want to "Widen Your World," with online "Master Class" courses that cost $200-$300 a pop. For example, there's Steven Pearlstein's "Introduction to Economic Literacy." [Lesson number one: don't spend $300 to have a liberal journalist lecture you.] Budding oenophiles can bone up on "The Wines of Bordeaux" with Joseph Ward, which you may need after…

Washington Post’s Pearlstein Charges Republican Policies ‘Kill Peo

January 10th, 2011 2:35 AM
Talk about incendiary and toxic talk. In Friday’s Washington Post, business section columnist Steven Pearlstein proclaimed that “what's particularly noteworthy about” congressional Republican “fixation with ‘job killing’” Democratic policies, such as Obamacare, “is that it stands in such contrast to the complete lack of concern about policies that kill people rather than jobs.” Pearlstein, a…

Washington Post's Pearlstein: Passing Health Bill Will 'Restore...Trus

March 19th, 2010 12:47 PM
“It's shaping up to be a great weekend here in Washington,” Washington Post business section columnist Steven Pearlstein proclaimed in a piece in Friday's newspaper, and not because of the “spectacular weather,” but because of the likely “vote in the House that would finally have the United States join the rest of the industrialized world in offering health insurance to all its citizens.”…

Brown's Win Evidence of 'Wretched' State of the Union, Whines Washingt

January 27th, 2010 1:07 PM
Scott Brown replacing Ted Kennedy in the Senate really irritates the Washington press corps, as evidenced by Washington Post business section columnist Steven Pearlstein, who in Wednesday's paper cited Brown's victory as an example of the “wretched” state of the nation while he scolded Massachusetts voters for selfishness in picking Brown to replace Kennedy who had fought “for social justice.” In…

WaPo Columnist Smears GOP as 'Political Terrorists' on Health Care, Bu

August 7th, 2009 11:42 AM
In Friday’s Washington Post business section, columnist Steven Pearlstein — who last week condemned the conservative “fantasy” that raising taxes is damaging to the economy — blasted Republicans as “political terrorists” who are “poisoning the political well” by peddling “lies” about liberal health care plans, lies that are “so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a…

Washington Post Headline Encapsulates Press Corps Attitude

August 3rd, 2009 1:11 AM

WaPo Business Columnist Tells David Gregory Taxes Are Going Up

April 19th, 2009 2:29 PM
As Tea Parties ensued from coast to coast last week, the Obama administration and their media minions depicted attendees as not understanding that the new president has decreed taxes will be going down for 95 percent of Americans.On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein let the cat out of the bag: Tea Partiers are right. Taxes are going up.This revelation…

Pulitzer-Winner Blames Those Who 'Refuse to Raise Taxes

August 3rd, 2008 3:27 AM
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, on Friday contended “it is not the protectionists of the AFL-CIO or CNN who are primarily to blame for the erosion of public support” for free trade, instead:The blame lies squarely with a business community that continues to support Republican politicians who refuse to raise the taxes and spend…

Doom and Gloom Opining Wins WashPo Columnist a Pulitzer Prize

April 7th, 2008 6:30 PM
Congratulations to The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein - being on the "economy is destined for calamity" bandwagon early. It has won you a Pulitzer Prize. Pearlstein was named as one of the recipients of the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, for his columns on the nation's economic problems. Granted, Pearlstein called the fundamental problems with some of the shenanigans going on in the home mortgage…