WashPost Hides 'Nonpartisan' Job of Trump-Hating Liberal Writer

Tim Graham
January 17th, 2017 9:57 AM
Washington Post reporter Paul Schwartzman wrote an article on how deeply Democratic D.C. was observing the Trump inauguration. He began with how disgusted "Mindy Moretti, a writer and editor residing in the District, reserved a rental car that she intends to load with her mutt Maisey and an overnight bag to drive out of Washington just before Donald Trump is sworn in as president." The Post is…
 

WashPost's Schwartzman Concern-Trolls About 'Venom' in Va. Governor's

Ken Shepherd
August 7th, 2013 5:43 PM
The paper that gave you an obsessive focus on George Allen's "macaca" gaffe and Bob McDonnell's master's thesis is doing its best to run block for Terry McAuliffe. Just take today's  front-pager by staff writer Paul Schwartzman, "Va. governor's race drips with venom," which amounts to 44 paragraphs of concern trolling about mean-spirited, partisan sniping in the Virginia governor's race between…
 

Terry McAuliffe Isn't an Unethical Businessman, He's 'Laid-back' and

Tim Graham
July 29th, 2013 8:21 AM

The Washington Post seems alarmed at the feel of Terry McAuliffe’s Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia, with its reporter writing “the most striking feature at many of McAuliffe’s appearances may be the almost studied absence of a campaign.” So you have to laugh when the headline on Page One is “As politicians go, McAuliffe is laid-back on Va. bid.” Inside the paper, the headline was…

 

WashPost Rewards Gov. O'Malley's 'Personal Push' for Gun Ban, Licensin

Ken Shepherd
April 8th, 2013 7:22 PM
As if it weren't enough for the Washington Post to cheerlead for Maryland's new stringent gun control law in the editorial pages and in biased news accounts, staff writers Aaron Davis and Paul Schwartzman today rewarded liberal governor and potential 2016 presidential contender Martin O'Malley with a 62-paragraph front-page victory lap headlined "Behind Md.'s tough gun law, a personal push…
 

Name That Party: Arrested Prince George's County Political Couple Rare

Tom Blumer
November 13th, 2010 9:03 AM
In Maryland, Prince George's County's top elected official, County Executive Jack B. Johnson (pictured at right on NB's home page) was arrested yesterday, and "is accused of accepting cash in return for helping a developer secure federal funding." Johnson's wife, a recently elected councilperson, was also arrested yesterday. The couple are both accused of "tampering with a witness and…
 

WaPo Touts 'Pervasive and Accepted' Pot Use in DC, Finds No Critic in

Tim Graham
May 4th, 2010 8:02 AM
At the top-left corner of the Washington Post's front page today is a celebration of pot smoking in the nation's capital. "As D.C. votes on marijuana, seeds already firmly planted: Council weighs medical use of 'pervasive, accepted' drug."Reporters Paul Schwartzman and Annys Shin fill 28 paragraphs with copy from pot smokers and pot lobbyists and pot dealers, and nowhere in those 28 paragraphs of…
 

WaPo: Inaugural Pilgrims 'Loaded with Luggage But Lightened by Hope

Ken Shepherd
January 18th, 2009 8:09 PM
"The president-elect popped into a party at Bobby Van's restaurant, as well as The Washington Post's newsroom, where hard-bitten journalists fumbled for their cellphone cameras and reached for his hand."So noted Post staffer Paul Schwartzman in his January 18 Metro section front-pager "Mr. Obama's (Giddy) Neighborhood." Yet for a supposedly hard-bitten bunch, the Posties sure are giddy over Obama…
 

Plenty of Room at the Inn; WaPo Notes 15,000 Vacant Rooms for Obama In

Ken Shepherd
January 15th, 2009 1:03 PM
Pssst. Eight hundred rooms in Washington, D.C. proper and a total of 15,000 rooms "in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District" remain unbooked for the Obama apotheosis inaugural. Pass it on. "Actually, Hotel Space Remains Available," the Washington Post's Paul Schwartzman quietly reported on page B2 of the January 15 edition's "Inauguration Watch." Staffer Paul Schwartzman cited Washington'…