WashPost 'Home' Section Features Sally Quinn's Favorite Nixon-Hating Household Items

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By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
April 5, 2007 - 22:14 ET

One frustrating thing about the Washington Post is you can't really throw out any section of the paper before scanning it for liberal bias. Take Thursday's Home section, newly redesigned. The big feature is by Sally Quinn, the wife of longtime Post executive editor Ben Bradlee. Her liberalism seeps in as she recalls her favorite household objects. In a photo on the section's front page, she points to her desk, bought in Newport, Rhode Island: "I was on assignment there the day that Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon. I was so distraught I couldn't work, so I went shopping."

Inside Home, she shows another picture of a household favorite in a frame: "The most fun thing, though, is in the adjacent powder room. It is a copy of notes taken by H.R. Haldeman as dictated by Richard Nixon. It reads: 'Never invite Sally Quinn. Violated the rules and attacked a guest at church.'" 

Julia Seymour found feminist bias in the Sports section on Thursday, too.


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Sally

April 5, 2007 - 22:56 ET by Jerry Mack

I do not know the word for worse than ridiculous. If I did I would use it to describe Quinns' pretentiousness. I hope someone fanned her to prevent her  from fainting!

It is curious to see the new

April 5, 2007 - 23:36 ET by jondelwiche

It is curious to see the newsprint folks financially imploding with the advent of cable, talk radio, and internet.   This type of bias (our papers have for years had pointless politico insults even in its movie and theater reviews) has been present for decades, but before customers were held hostage. 
Sadly (or is it gladly?),  newspapers are learning a brutal  financial reality that it isnt good business sense to insult half of one's potential customer base.
When a group of subscibers leave (bad), the ad dollars flow to where their eyeballs have moved (worse).
Business 101, but pride is a hard thing to swallow.  

Sally Quinn is and always has

April 6, 2007 - 00:12 ET by bigtimer

Sally Quinn is and always has been nothing but a political whore...

Hillary has nothing on her.

Good advise from H.R. "Never

April 6, 2007 - 04:57 ET by old cro

Good advise from Nixon as noted by H.R. "Never invite Sally Quinn".

"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
Richard M. Nixon