How To Read The Washington Post 101

Toogoodreports.com ^ | Monday, August 18 | Lowell Phillips

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How To Read The Washington Post 101

By Lowell Phillips

Toogood Reports

Monday, August 18

...But the media's Vietnam offspring are not deterred. The next best thing to a humiliating defeat is a delegitimized victory. Emulating their European brethren, as ever, they see the most promising methods to achieve this as questioning the motives for the war and weaving conspiracies. Weeks after the flap created by a misrepresentation of 16 words in the President's State Of the Union Address died, The Washington Post continues to pathetically flail away in hopes of landing a knockout blow. Only by a bit of well-applied logic can readers avoid being led astray. This is true not just with the Post, but whenever the elite media employs their version of impartiality...

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...why Bush should have acted on a plan that Clinton did not? What success in fighting terror from the Clinton years could be pointed to in placing faith in their plan?

 

 

The media "says" (by implication?) that Bush should have waited until Saddam had his nuclear program in place. Bush should act just as Clinton did, by doing nothing while the North Koreans advanced their nuclear program to the place where it would have been too late to do anything. 

 

Here are two notes for the liberal media that may surprise them.

 

1) People in large numbers do not believe the mainstream media anymore. 

 

2) The WMD programs in Iraq were real, and there is going to be a lot of crow eaten by a lot of Dems, Libs, and liberal media types soon. I happen to think that.

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The Washington Polemic - what a sorry excuse!

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"With the American media gazing enviously across the Atlantic at Tony Blair struggling for his political life, and with the 2004 election approaching, this is unlikely to go away. It is therefore incumbent upon the American people to not only follow the news, but also to recognize that it is oftentimes manufactured to serve a partisan purpose. In this day and age, it is a lot to expect. And that is exactly what the Washington Post is counting on."

And what the Washington Post is counting on is what "the American media gazing enviously across the Atlantic" is counting on--and exactly what the Democratic Party is counting on.

And that is the 800 pound gorilla in the room with all campaign finance "reform" legislation.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

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There may be some moderation, and an editorial here and there, but this column is responding to a 5500 word front page story that was passed off as news and designed to generate suspicion.... based on flawed logic and hype...

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That's true, but apparently the editors haven't gotten the word to Dana Milbank.

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