WashPost Poll Finds Obama Approval Unaffected, President 'More Focused
May 21st, 2013 10:13 PM
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday's front page that their ABC-Post poll showed Obama’s approval rating remained steady, with 51 percent approving and 44 percent disapproving. Then came the Post polling comparison to uncaring Republicans. Dan Balz and Jon Cohen reported: “A bare majority of Americans say they believe that Obama is focused on issues that are important to them personally;…
Which Way Is It? ‘Scandals Threaten Obama’s Agenda’ Or Obama
May 21st, 2013 2:01 PM
Contrasting headlines, over different polls taken by the two newspapers, on the front pages of Tuesday’s USA Today and Washington Post.
USA Today -- “Poll: Scandals threaten Obama’s agenda”
Washington Post – “Poll: President holds firm amid controversies”
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WashPost's Pincus Steadfastly Defends Obama/Holder DOJ's Handling of A
May 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
At this point it's become abundantly clear that the Obama/Holder Justice Department went overboard in its overzealous, subpoena-happy probe of Associated Press journalists. We also know from the Washington Post's reporting, that the administration was peeved about the timing of the AP story in question, not so much the content, and that the AP's president is on record slamming the DOJ for an "…
MSNBC Slams 'Scandal' of GOP Vote to Repeal ObamaCare
May 20th, 2013 5:24 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton lambasted House Republicans for repeatedly voting to repeal ObamaCare, calling it a "scandal" and an "outrage," as he seemed to cite a questionable study from a left-wing source from 2009 claiming that 45,000 people a year die because they lack health insurance. Sharpton began the segment:
WashPost 'Express' Tabloid Cover Laments: How Can Obama 'Break from th
May 20th, 2013 12:16 PM
While the the front page of today's Washington Post is actually reporting significant developments in two of Barack Obama's trifecta of scandals, the Washington Post Company-owned free tabloid the Express is busy lamenting if the president will ever get "A Break from the Storm?"
Perhaps, as "advisers say," he "should stage a major economic speech to drown out the noise [emphasis mine] of…
Washington Post Fact Checker Gives 'A Bushel of Pinocchios' to IRS's L
May 20th, 2013 10:00 AM
Of all the scandals plaguing the Obama administration, the one involving the Internal Revenue Service appears to be the one that even liberal news outlets deem serious.
Count Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler amongst the concerned, for on Monday he actually gave the IRS's Lois Lerner "a bushel of Pinocchios" for statements she has made about her organization's targeting of…
It Gets Worse: WashPost Reports Obama DOJ Also Spied on James Rosen of
May 20th, 2013 7:16 AM
The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn't "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn't in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued.
Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply…
WashPost 'On Faith' Editor Sally Quinn Blames Female-hating Christians
May 19th, 2013 8:00 AM
The Washington Post made a fool of its corporate self by starting a website called “On Faith” and putting at its head the secularist Sally Quinn. Oh, she claims to be interested by religion – just as King Herod thought Christ’s miracles sounded amusing, like he was a hippie magician like Doug Henning.
In Saturday’s paper, Quinn turned dead serious about sexual assault in the military, even…
Politico Ignores Govt.-AP Timing Discussions in Saying 'Veteran Lawyer
May 18th, 2013 10:39 AM
In a story appearing this morning at the Politico about the Department of Justice's broad and unannounced subpoenas of the April and May 2012 personal and business phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press involving 20 phone lines and involving over 100 reporters and editors, James Hohmann found several "veteran prosecutors" who aren't necessarily outraged by what most…
WashPost's Milbank: GOP Should 'Waste' Time So 'They'll Be of Less Har
May 17th, 2013 6:22 PM
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's PoliticsNation show on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank mocked House Republicans for repeatedly holding unsuccessful votes to repeal ObamaCare as he suggested they should continue to "waste" time so "they'll be less of a harm to the country" because that way "they're not cutting food stamps." Milbank:
WashPost Loved Henry Waxman, But Bashes Darrell Issa 'Feverishly Chasi
May 17th, 2013 10:27 AM
When ultraliberal Henry Waxman ran the House Government Reform Committee, The Washington Post didn't often suggest he was a fierce partisan or ideologue. Instead, former Washington Post managing editor Robert Kaiser praised him in a book review headlined "Moustache of Justice." (The Waxman lovers even have a mug.)
Kaiser cooed, “Henry Waxman is to Congress what Ted Williams was to baseball…
WaPo Reports White House Addressing 'Gender Salary Gap,' Omits That It
May 16th, 2013 7:26 PM
“President Obama has called for creation of a government wide strategy ‘to address any gender pay gap in the Federal workforce.'" Eric Yoder of the Washington Post noted in a May 14 article. That's all well and good, but nowhere in Yoder's story did he consider that there's a pay disparity problem in the White House and in Senate Democratic offices, according to investigations by the Washington…
WashPost's Kessler Calls Out Obama, Sen. Boxer on Benghazi Lies
May 16th, 2013 4:44 PM
As the Obama administration’s Benghazi narrative begins to crumble, they’ve decided to recycle old talking points in the hope that the news media won't fact-check them.
On May 13, during a press conference, President Obama said, “The day after it [Benghazi] happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler – in this instance – should be commended…
WashPost Reporters Mock 'Insanity' of House GOP Push to Repeal ObamaCa
May 16th, 2013 4:35 PM
The House Republican caucus is an insane asylum divorced from reality.
That, essentially, was the complaint waged by Washington Post reporters David A. Fahrenthold and Ed O'Keefe in the first six paragraphs of their page A2 May 16 story, "A persistent GOP battle against health law":