Obama Laments 'Worn Arguments and Old Attitudes' Holding Back Gay Libe
July 1st, 2009 8:37 AM
The Washington Post put the first White House celebration of Gay Pride Month on the front page Tuesday, but reporter Michael Shear left out some of the president’s most liberal and most supportive lines from the transcript. Obama pledged to be "an ally and a champion" of the gay left’s agenda and hailed gay activists "who have refused to accept anything less than full and equal citizenship." He…
WaPo's Joe Heim: Country Music Often Filled with Hate
June 30th, 2009 2:06 PM
"When they're runnin' down my country [music], man, they're walkin' on the fightin' side of me."Merle Haggard's most famous lyric could well be adapted to express the reaction country music fans may have upon reading Joe Heim's latest review in the June 30 Washington Post. Heim's lead paragraph begins with a drive-by attack on the genre as a whole:Country music has always had something of an…
Milbank and HuffPoster Heatedly Debate Press Conference Plants
June 28th, 2009 4:10 PM
As NewsBusters' Tim Graham reported, the Obama administration planted Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney to ask a question at Tuesday's press conference.The following day, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank also took the White House to task for this shameful episode. On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," Milbank and Pitney had a rather heated debate about what transpired that included, according to…
Obama's 'Very Best Care' For His Own Family ABC Comment Largely Unimpo
June 27th, 2009 12:13 AM
Clearly, the most important takeaway from ABC's low-rated White House forum on health care was President Barack Obama's admission that he would go outside the constraints of a nationalized system to get the "very best care" if necessary for his own family.Hot Air's Ed Morrissey noted that Obama's response should properly be seen as "a Michael Dukakis moment that exposed him as a hypocrite."A…
Washington Post Notes 'Undocumented' Immigrant Rally, Fails to Include
June 24th, 2009 3:29 PM
Take three liberal policy advocates, stir into a 12-paragraph story, and strain out any dissenting voices. That's the recipe for pushing Washington Post writer Martin Ricard's June 24 story on illegal immigrants who rallied yesterday in Washington, D.C., for a bill before Congress to make it easier for illegal immigrants to get access to financial aid for college. In "Students Stage Mock…
WaPo: Obama's Cairo Speech Encouraged Iranian Revolt
June 23rd, 2009 10:21 AM
The recent protests in Iran, as well as Hezbollah's political defeat in Lebanon days earlier, are the result of Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4.Such nonsense was actually reported by the Washington Post Tuesday.At this time, it appears the real Obama Derangement Syndrome is creating a nexis between anything good that happens anywhere on the planet to some presidential deed (h/t Hot Air):
