Washington Post Slams House Democrats For Pork-Laden Iraq Withdrawal B
It must have been very chilly in hell on Friday, for the editorial division of a major newspaper actually came down on Democrats.I kid you not.For those that missed it, the Washington Post ran an editorial Friday entitled “Retreat and Butter,” with a sub-headline “Are Democrats in the House voting for farm subsidies or withdrawal from Iraq?”Having asked a tremendously valid question that most in…
Lauer: Iraq Funding Cut Would Be 'Disaster
Matt Lauer said the right thing. Was it for the wrong reason?Discussing on this morning's "Today" with Tim Russert the current wrangling between the Bush administration and the Dem congress over a bill to fund the Iraq war and the Dems' attempt to include a "date certain" for troop withdrawal, Matt Lauer said:"Robert Gates, the Defense Secretary, has said that sometime next month that the…
Imus: 'Unwatchable' Couric Can't Do 'Big Boy' Evening News
After his comments this morning, if Don Imus ever gets invited to a party on the terrace of Katie Couric's midtown apartment overlooking Central Park, he would be well advised not to get too close to the ledge. Chatting with Imus on MSNBC at 8:45 ET this morning about the travails of the CBS Evening News and the advent of Rick Kaplan as its executive producer, media maven Howard Kurtz observed…
Media Ignored Reason for 'Gathering of Eagles' Vigil: January Spray-Pa
In her March 18 article, the Washington Post's Brigid Schulte informed readers about why Gathering of Eagles counter-protesters set out to guard the Vietnam War Memorial on March 17 during the scheduled anti-war protests:At a Jan. 27 antiwar rally, some protesters spray-painted the pavement on a Capitol terrace. Others crowned the Lone Sailor statue at the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue…
Gathering of Eagles (GoE): An Indicator of Old Media Decline
So how many Gathering of Eagles (GoE) counterprotesters were in Washington yesterday, and how did their numbers compare to the Answer Coalition's protest count?
The New York Times (may require registration) reported "several hundred counterdemonstrators" (HT Michelle Malkin, who has the priceless quote of the day -- ".... the NYTimes relied on 'several veterans of the antiwar movement' to give…
WashPost Front-Pages Mugabe Violence Yet Doesn't Call Him a Dictator
On the one hand, I have to give the Washington Post credit for frontpaging today's story on longtime Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's campaign of police thuggery against opposition leaders.Yet when I looked through the article, I found no mention that Mugabe is a socialist or leftist, nor was he labeled a dictator. In fact, the only dictator reference came in a graph that noted that the…