Wimp or Bully? Press, Even 'Bully'-Originating WaPo, Fails to Note Con

Tom Blumer
July 31st, 2012 10:19 AM
Sunday on ABC, as Rush Limbaugh noted on his show yesterday, Obama campaign senior adviser and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney a "schoolyard bully." Just a couple of hours later (the time stamp is noon on Sunday), what little is left of Newsweek published "Mitt Romney's Wimp Factor." Zheesh -- So which is it?
 

WashPost's Aaron Blake: Conservatives Are 'Divisive,' Liberals Are 'De

Tim Graham
February 19th, 2012 9:15 AM
Local DC conservative talker Chris Plante announced that Washington Post political writer Aaron Blake on Wednesday had “just exposed your own bias” for this sentence as he delighted in Newt Gingrich’s high unfavorable ratings: “Sarah Palin, even at her most divisive, never saw her unfavorable rating rise above 60 percent in the CNN poll. And even when Republicans were demonizing Nancy Pelosi in…
 

Gingrich Rips WaPo: Media 'Would Rather Worry About Rumors About Conse

Noel Sheppard
November 30th, 2011 9:34 AM
On Monday, NewsBusters broke a story about Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake using Twitter to dig up dirt on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. On Tuesday, the former House Speaker spoke to St. Louis radio host and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch about this saying, "It’s a little sad to see a paper the quality of the Washington Post stoop to...the National Enquirer approach…
 

NB Publisher Bozell Slams WashPost Blogger for Requesting Dirt on Ging

NB Staff
November 29th, 2011 4:55 PM
The Washington Post should either fire Aaron Blake or "acknowledge that it doesn't have a semblance of objectivity left to it," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto on his Your World program this afternoon. The Media Research Center (MRC) founder was reacting to this November 28 tweet by the Post political blogger (video of segment follows page break):
 

Washington Post Blogger Asks for Dirt About Newt Gingrich on Twitter

Noel Sheppard
November 28th, 2011 1:35 PM
Still in the camp that doesn't believe the media are liberally biased? Check out what the Washington Post's Aaron Blake tweeted moments ago on Twitter:
 

WaPo's The Fix: Utah Democrat Keeps 'Seat by Voting Very Conservativel

Mike Bates
July 29th, 2011 3:49 PM
Yesterday on "The Fix", a politics blog of the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake wrote "Five Members to watch in the House debt ceiling vote."  One of the five is Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT).  He's described as a potential "yes" vote for Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) debt ceiling bill: Matheson, a Democrat, has managed to keep his Republican-leaning Utah seat by voting very…