http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/washingtonpost/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:28:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099485/posts In an editorial that largely attacks McCain, the Post give up one little nugget that really is the essence of the campaign: Barack Obama's lack of moral compass. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2099485/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:28:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097931/posts The Washington Post, perfectly content to be outdone by a piece yesterday in its sister rag, The New York Times, slips a little piece about Obama and Ayers onto page A10. It is a very short article that isn't really about Ayers. It is titled, Palin Seizes on Obama's Ayers Ties, something the Post does not really feel compelled to do on its own. Palin is helping them out. GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin opened a new assault on Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of being "someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097931/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2094827/posts At a March 3, 2002 Presidential Gala at Ford’s Theater, in Washington, President George W. Bush was seated in the front row. When emcee Kelsey Grammer introduced blind musician Stevie Wonder, the president smiled and raised his right hand in a perfunctory wave. It was clear to those seated nearby that his gesture was intended for Grammer, one of Hollywood’s few unabashed Republicans. Nevertheless, the Washington Post published a story the following day implying that Bush had waved at Stevie Wonder, saying, “The Prez is such a dolt, he waves at blind folks,” and Democrats all across the country repeated... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2094827/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:07:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094604/posts Gov. Palin had a second email account, washington post proclaims. "ITS Alaska, said a discreet e-mail system was created from an old campaign account, with access confined to "a group of people, her closest confidantes and co-workers and advisers and the person she sleeps with." washington post via azcentral http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094604/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 04:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092538/posts 9:21 p.m. John McCain kicked the evening off with a wild exaggeration by describing the allied invasion of Normandy as "the greatest invasion" in history. Such historical comparisons are always dangerous. In scale, the D-Day landings were far exceeded by Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, in June 1941, and the Soviet invasion of Germany at the end of World War II. washington post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092538/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:40:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091782/posts The first presidential debate of the 2008 election, which as recently as 12 hours ago looked like it might not happen, is in the books. Wahington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091782/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:30:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091011/posts In a recent visit to Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Washington Post political editor David Broder told students that he believes there is no such thing as media bias. He claims that too many confuse talk radio with journalism and imagines the bias is predicated on that basis. Speaking also to WOAI radio, Broder said, "I have spent almost fifty years of my life covering campaigns with other people. I don't think there is a serious problem with ideological or political bias." According to WOAI, Broder claimed not to see any bias in reporters of his generation nor in younger... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091011/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:19:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087070/posts Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087070/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087068/posts WaPo. Mr. McCain's selection of an inexperienced and relatively unknown figure was unsettling, and the campaign's decision to keep her sequestered from serious interchanges with reporters and voters serves only to deepen the unease. Sequestered? She gave her first interview to a partisan MSM anchor, who tried to trip her up (unlike the softballs lobbed to Obama). She gave an interview to a friendly conservative commentator. She gave one to a celebrity rag and some more to her home-state press. Doesn't that cover everything? And there were no serious exchanges? Ask Charlie Gibson if he agrees with that. That "unease"... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087068/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086918/posts JOHN McCAIN selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate 23 days ago. Since then, Ms. Palin has not held a single news conference with the national media. She has answered only a handful of questions from voters and reporters. She sat down for a lengthy discussion with one nonpartisan interviewer, ABC's Charles Gibson, and granted another interview to conservative Sean Hannity of Fox News, as well as a sit-down with People magazine and some interviews with Alaska media. Where Dick Cheney made the rounds of five news shows the weekend after he was tapped by George W.... Washington Compost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086918/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2082121/posts The Washington Post has outdone itself, managing to insult small towns, small town mayors, small town residents, and Sarah Palin all in one article. There is dripping condescension and bias in nearly every paragraph of this hit piece. And for that, we should be thankful. This is how the liberals will lose this election. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2082121/posts#comment Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:23:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080723/posts Here are the headline and the first two paragraphs from an article posted online that apparently will be on the front page of Friday's Washington Post: "Palin Links Iraq to 9/11, A View Discarded by Bush" By Anne E. Kornblut 
Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; A01 FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands... weekly standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080723/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:20:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080574/posts A Tangled Story of Addiction Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed By Kimberly Kindy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; A01 When Cindy McCain is asked what issues she would champion as first lady, she often cites one of the most difficult periods of her life: her battle with -- and ultimate victory over -- prescription painkillers. Her struggle, she has said repeatedly, taught her valuable lessons about drug abuse that she would pass on to the nation. "I think it made me a better person as well as a better... Washington Compost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080574/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079095/posts The Lackey Press Remember the WashPo's "Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home" ? Three times as many American believe in UFOs than trust the MSMRemember yesterday's Washington Post story with the headline, "Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home"? Even those familiar with the ways of the Mainstream Media may have paused. The WashPo staff writers, James Grimaldi and Karl Vick, must have labored hours to compile their story. It sounds ominous enough: was Palin the Reformer bilking the state through expense reports? Here’s the lead paragraph: ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079095/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:38:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073548/posts Resume Of A Terrorist: Obama's Buddy Ayers by Jim Kouri Published: Sep 2, 2008 While the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news organizations have their reporters digging for dirt on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's choice for vice president, their savior-in-waiting Barack Obama is getting a free ride at the expense of truth. It's no secret that the denizens of America's newsrooms want Obama sitting in the Oval Office, but Americans are being purposely duped by the Democrat National Committee's volunteer publicists, formerly known as the mainstream news media. If... postchronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073548/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073492/posts The Washington Post has sunk to DailyKos level with a post from Paul Kane: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds... 24AheadDotCom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073492/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 03:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063585/posts It is now clear why Barack Obama has refused John McCain's offer of joint town hall appearances during the fall campaign. McCain is obviously better at them. Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency -- two hours on Saturday night evenly divided between the relaxed, tieless candidates -- was expected to be a sideshow. McCain and Obama would make their specialized appeals to evangelicals as if they were an interest group such as organized labor or the National Rifle Association... What took place instead under Warren's precise and revealing questioning was the most important event so far of... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063585/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:05:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060345/posts MOSCOW -- The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone. Already, thousands of people have died, tens of thousands have been turned into refugees, and towns and villages lie in ruins. Nothing can justify this loss of life and destruction. It is a warning to all. The roots of this tragedy lie in the decision of Georgia's separatist leaders in 1991 to abolish South Ossetian autonomy. This turned out to be a time bomb for Georgia's territorial integrity. Each time successive Georgian leaders tried to impose their will by force -- both in South... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060345/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057779/posts The Washington Post was forced to issue a substantive correction to a front page story that stated GOP presidential candidate John McCain received “unlikely” campaign contributions through an unscrupulous bundler after Townhall questioned the facts of the article. The lede of reporter Matthew Mosk’s A1 Wednesday story said: “The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners of the Twilight Hookah Lounge in Fullerton.”... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057779/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 01:14:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057563/posts The editors of the Post have nailed Obama on failing to do the townhall debates, called him "Foolish," "Irrational," and "Wrong" on Iraq, and today they nail him on his plans for a windfall profits tax and using the Strategic Oil Reserve for rebate checks. They even use economics, of all things, to show why The Messiah is wrong. And here I thought that Economics 101 was an elective in college that liberals skipped in favor of the more popular "How to Light a Beer Bong in a Stiff Wind at a Spit-on-the-Soldiers Rally - 101." The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057563/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:32:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054291/posts Imagine if the principal of a Catholic school in the metro D.C. region was found guilty of failing to report an allegation of child sexual abuse. It'd be considered worthy of front page news for the Washington Post, at the very least a front pager for the paper's Metro section. Yet reporting the conviction of Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan on July 31, the Post buried the story on the 6th page of the Metro section. Here's how staffer Tom Jackman opened his story: The director general of a controversial private Islamic school in Fairfax County has been found guilty of a... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054291/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053712/posts This week may mark a turning point. Dana Milbank at the Post thinks Barry may be getting just a little ahead of himself. Gotta love the sarcasm. Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris. Some say the supremely confident... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053712/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:38:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053298/posts The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit yesterday, alleging that the District's new gun-registration system is burdensome and continues to unlawfully outlaw most semiautomatic pistols. Dick A. Heller, a 66-year-old security guard who lives on Capitol Hill, and two other plaintiffs allege in the lawsuit that the D.C. government violated the letter and the spirit of the landmark Supreme Court decision, issued June 26, that struck down the District's decades-old handgun ban. The 5 to 4 ruling concluded that the Second Amendment grants individuals the right to possess... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053298/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:00:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050837/posts I wish I would have known about it, but Sophia Nelson, who wrote the "Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked." column in Sunday's Post hosted an online chat this morning on WaPo's website. As you can see from the transcript, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/23/DI2008072302382.html, a couple of people pressed her on the question of whether she was simply smearing anyone who criticized Michelle Obama as a racist and sexist. Her response was to accuse these people of engaging in a personal attack against her and then she just moved on. She will be on CNN's American morning tomorrow from 6:30 to 7 a.m. (she was... Not WRIGHT for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050837/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2048649/posts Sunday's Washington Post ran a column by a woman named Sophia Nelson. The title of the column tells you everything you need to know about it: "Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked." As little faith as I have in liberal newspapers such as The Washington Post, the fact that they would run this column is appalling. There are very real problems for America in having a first lady who has no problem calling America "downright mean" and saying she has never before been proud of America (youtube here--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNGjawtP48&eurl=http://www.notwrightforamerica.com/--watch it for yourself and decide if her explanation is believable). Not WRIGHT for America... Not Wright for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2048649/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:12:18 GMT