July 7, 2011 - 9:02 am
In confirming what anyone who has actually spent any time understanding the Tea Party already knows, it’s almost as if the Post’s intrepid reporter spotted Bigfoot riding Nessie down the ramp of their mother ship that just flew in from Area 51.
Once the Post has caught its breath, perhaps it will confirm the existence of the Black Tea Party, too.
Perhaps the Washington Post does not want to acknowledge that some of the people who sandblasted their coverage of the Iraq war and the last two Presidential elections are Liberals.
I self-identify as a Liberal, and have done so all along, and yet the Washington Post has, from time to time, chosen to cite my specific criticism of their coverage as coming from something called “conservative commentators.”
Respect for care in reporting, and for fact-checking, is not a Conservative value. Both Liberals and Conservatives want to deal with the world as it is.
For example, the Washington Post set out to, and said that it had, put an end to the story about John Kerry’s fictional biography as objected to by the Swift Boat Veterans. Months later, I saw the author of Kerry’s book, and alleged historian, admit in a TV interview, to such facts as to make me conclude he had written a hagiography. I remembered that the Post reporter had written that he could not tell why the Swift Boat veterans were mad at John Kerry, only that they were.
I read the book. It was plain enough to me. They were mad at him for lying, and they were specific in pointing out the lies. And, the author of Kerry’s book admitted to some of the lies.
The Washington Post grossly distorted the questions that were raised about Obama’s background, pretending that the most far-out speculation from the fringe was representative, admitting only after the election was over that there did exist substantial questions about our new President’s background that were never pursued, and that they should have been pursued.
As for the story in Iraq, the Washington Post pretended that “no iconic images” had emerged from that war. That’s really odd, because Gateway Pundit has one of them in the banner across the top of its web page. Oh, and Blackfive has carried some stunning imagery. The Washington Post’s failure to transmit the available iconic images that came out of that war does not equate with lack of images.
I know they got my input. They just refused to believe that Liberals want fact-checking and solid reporting, too. Odd, that.