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I just read about a half dozen of the comments on the WaPo site and they are amusing. Posters are accusing the paper of rightwing bias and doing what republicans want!!! I wonder if these posters are living in the Code Pink house on Capitol Hill?

Example:

I’ll have more respect for WaPo’s integrity . . . when it dumps rightwing fascists like Krappthammer and Will . . . who contribute absolutely zero to the discussion of what’s best for the country — they only regurgitate the Neocon(victs) jibberish of the past 50 years . . .

And, the fact that WaPo (and most notably, Blob Woodward) were totally asleep at the switch during Dumbya & Diick’s reign of terror . . . especially The War for Corporate Welfare in Iraq.
7/5/2009 7:35:11 AM

pipemannow wrote:
“... Anyone with integrity would resign, as you would call for any politician to resign under such huge ethical lapses....”

Oh, good point...........as a matter of fact, as I recall, the Post never did call for Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld to resign.
7/5/2009 7:43:14 AM

The Post lost its way a long time ago - when it decided its role was to promote the power brokers and conventional wisdom in Washington in return for favors, regardless of the cost to the country. This little episode is nothing new, just another step on the long decline from the paper of the 1970’s. In the same way I have dismissed Murdoch’s Fox news for its rabid ideology that trumps everything it does, I have stopped considering the post columnists and opinion leaders because they are so hopelessly antagonistic to changing America, and the people who live outside the beltway.

I think the ideology of the post could be summed up by “we will support those in power if they are republicans” — otherwise we will pretend to be journalists.

A prime example of this attitude is Dana Millbank, who is more concerned over his personal ego than getting his facts straight, or reporting on things he may not like. So goes Dana, so goes the Post. c’est la vie.
7/5/2009 7:56:34 AM

Many of the writers are Democrat trolls (empolyees of dem PR firms). They provide "cover" for newspapers. Anyone working in a paper can fool themselves into thinking "if both sides are complaining, it's a wash". And since members of the press don't want to see themselves as bised one sided bigots, they buy the message.

Here's a hint to the manipulated members of the press: Look around your newsroom - did more than 1% of the people where you work vote for McCain in the last Presidential election?