Teddy Hails Helen Thomas: 'One of the Greatest Reporters' In American
Jose Antonio Vargas covered the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner in the capital last night for The Washington Post, and the liberals were handing over the highest compliments to one honoree, long-standing leftist UPI reporter Helen Thomas, now a Hearst columnist and author of a book scolding the rest of the press corps for being Bush tools: On behalf of the House of Representatives, we…
Matthews: 'Rajiv, Tell Me What a Loser Paul Bremer Was
Talk about leading the witness . . . Rajiv Chandrasekaran was the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post during the tenure of Paul Bremer as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the period succeeding the removal of Saddam Hussein. Chandrasekaran is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a book generally critical of Bremer's administration -- but apparently not critical…
WashPost Reporter Quickly Sidesteps Hardball Online Question on Arkin
Never let it be said that politicians are the only ones who side-step the hardball questions in Washington. In today's Post Politics Hour chat at washingtonpost.com, reporter Peter Baker had a no-comment answer on WashPost blogger William Arkin's anti-troops fulminating: Greenville, S.C.: Yo Peter -- you got any problems with your colleague William Arkin writing an entire column based on the…
Bill O’Reilly Slams NBC News, GE, and Washington Post for William Ar
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly was on the warpath Monday evening, and with good reason. The targets of his disaffection were NBC News, GE, and most vehemently, the Washington Post and William Arkin for the latter’s disgracefully disrespectful article about America’s troops published on January 30.O’Reilly began (video available here, hat tips to Hot Air and LGF): “In a stunning display of hatred, NBC…
WashPost Labeling: 'Landmark Gay Rights Activists' vs. Falwell's 'Reli
Sunday's Washington Post Magazine had another one of those true Post chestnuts, chronicling how cruel and backward the state of Virginia is to lesbians. April Witt's story focused on two women who entered into a civil union in Vermont now battling for custody of an artificially inseminated daughter. Vermont says Janet the lesbian partner is automatically a parent, Virginia says not so fast. The…
Comprehensive 'Annual Revision' to the Employment Numbers Goes Largely
Yesterday's Employment Situation Summary from the Bureaus of Labor Statistics told us that reports 111,000 net new jobs were added in January. Additionally, significant upward revisions were made to the previously reported job-increase figures from November (up 42,000 to 196,000 from last month’s revised 154,000) and December (up 39,000 to 206,000 from last month’s originally reported 167,000).…
Liberals Smell A Rat: 'Democrat Party' Is A GOP Slur, A Smear, 'Jarrin
The amazing liberal vapors over President Bush’s use of the word "Democrat" to describe, er, Democrats, continues. In an NPR interview with Juan Williams, President Bush claimed it was a simple mistake in his State of the Union speech, but liberals quickly found more of these grievous offenses in searching speech texts at the White House website. Certain left-wing media critics who lay face down…
WaPo Columnist: US Troops 'Naive Mercenaries' -- What Do We Really Owe
Half-serious warning: those with heart conditions are advised to have their medications handy when reading this.With Democrats in congressional power, are leftists feeling suddenly empowered to express formerly taboo views? First came a column in the Los Angeles Times arguing we have overreacted to 9-11. Now comes Washington Post columnist William Arkin to express contempt for our troops and…
