WaPo Wrings Hands Over Few College Coeds Running for Student Governmen
Apparently lacking any problems of graver concern in the D.C. area, today's Washington Post Metro section devoted front page real estate to young college women "Suffraging in silence."*
"On many college campuses," the subheader explains, "student government remains dominated by men, echoing gender gaps in state and national politics."
"For the past decade, women have outpaced men on key…
MSNBC Touts WaPo Columnist 'Taking Apart' GOP Budget Argument by Claim
On Wednesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, fill-in host Norah O'Donnell spoke with liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne about his claim that the United States is "not broke," but simply needs to "raise revenue" through higher taxes. She teased the segment by wondering: "Is Washington really as broke as lawmakers make it seem?"
O'Donnell described Dionne's latest column as "…
WaPo Columnist: Verizon Counting on Old People to Die Off
To borrow from former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), Verizon hopes old people die and die quickly.
That, in a nutshell is the gripe of Washington Post Metro section columnist John Kelly, whose wrath has been kindled by the phone company recent decision to discontinue its 936-1212 weather line:
Regarding the Truth About Social Security, Krauthammer Reports; Jack L
Yesterday, Washington Post syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer performed an act of journalism that anyone in the establishment press could have done -- and didn't -- for 17 days.
Krauthammer did a masterful job of taking apart Obama White House Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob ("Jack") Lew's ridiculous February 21 defense of Social Security and its alleged irrelevance to…
WaPo Declares 'Lots of Drama, Less Substance' at Yesterday's Islamic R
Two men testified yesterday before a U.S. House of Representatives panel about how their loved ones were radicalized by Islamist extremists and how local mosque leaders did nothing to help alert U.S. authorities of the potential danger.
Yet accounts of their testimony were buried in the Washington Post's front page March 11 story about the Homeland Security Committee's March 10 hearings…
'On Faith' Reprints Testimony of Sheriff Critical of Muslim Radicaliza
One popular feature of "On Faith," the online religion news feature of the Washington Post and Newsweek, is the "Guest Voices" column. They are typically short blog posts written by non-staff writers about an item in the news with a religious angle.
But apparently "On Faith" editors today were so interested in casting aspersions on today's Islamic radicalization hearings that they hastily…
WaPo Exults That Bill Clinton Is 'Charlie Sheen Without the Crazy... a
To Washington Post staffers Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger, former president Bill Clinton is "Charlie Sheen without the crazy, a polymath with no 'stop' button -- and, yeah, a total bitchin' rock star."
That's how the gossip columnists cooed about Clinton's appearance at Sunday's Kuwait-America Foundation dinner in their March 8 The Reliable Source feature.
Ezra Klein Balks at Rep. King's Islamic Radicalism Hearings; 'We've Ha
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein decried an upcoming congressional hearing on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism Monday, saying that Christians engage in violence as well but are not investigated by Congress. Klein lambasted the investigation, led by the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), as an attention-grabbing ploy to demonize the American…
WaPo Worries Republicans 'Seek[ing] More Limits on Voters
"State Republicans seek more limits on voters" warned the front page Washington Post headline for Peter Wallsten's March 7 article.
"GOP says the push targets fraud; Democrats call it a power play," added the subheader. The online version of the article had a decidedly less-loaded headline, but Wallsten's article skewed towards the Democratic complaint (emphasis mine):
WaPo 'Humorist' Hates Our 'Stupid Ramparts' and Our National Anthem, P
In Sunday's Washington Post Magazine, "humorist" and former Style section editor Gene Weingarten lamented how bad our national anthem is: the headline is "What so proudly we failed." Many singers dislike the way the melody travels, but Weingarten seems to hate the whole idea of patriotic songs. He concluded by expressing how he liked the lilt of France's national anthem "The Marseillaise" in…
George Will Rips Gingrich, Huckabee and Malzberg
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was lambasted by numerous liberal media outlets for comments he made to conservative radio host Steve Malzberg regarding President Obama's past.
Surprisingly joining in the harsh criticism was George Will whose column to be published in Sunday's Washington Post also excoriated former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as…
NYT, WaPo Defend Speech Rights of Westboro Baptist Church, But Slammed
It's often said that unpopular speech is the type that needs to be defended, since popular speech will rarely face a meaningful threat. Speech that is disagreeable and persuasive will probably seem less appealing than speech that is disagreeable but unlikely to sway anyone to its cause.
It is telling, then, that the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages vociferously opposed last…
Tilted Crystal Ball: WaPo Insists Ohio GOP 'May Invite Backlash' By T
Beware the crystal-ball story that predicts a backlash -- a liberal newspaper will constantly find backlashes to predict wherever conservatives succeed. The Washington Post unleashed their clairvoyance on Friday in an Amy Gardner story headlined "Ohio GOP may invite backlash with tough stance on unions." It began:
COLUMBUS -- State Republicans took the toughest line yet against public-sector…
WaPo Editorial Board: 'Mischief' Drives 'Incendiary' Va. Law Regulatin
The editorially-liberal Washington Post is hardly an enemy of government regulation. Except, of course, when it comes to moves to restrict abortion.
In Wednesday's paper, the editorial board lamented "Va.'s abortion end run."
"Mischief, not public health, drives the push for new regulation," griped the subheader. The online edition headline snarked that "Mischief drives change in Virginia…
