We now have definitive proof that the Washington Post is intentionally generating in-kind contributions to the Creigh Deeds campaign in Virginia.
Having taken out George Allen over his macaca comment, the Washington Post intends to politically assassinate Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell for his college thesis written over 20 years ago.
How do we know? Because of their coverage of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. The Washington Post has written exactly zero stories on Van Jones despite the very real and serious story — Barack Obama has hired, without congressional oversight, a man designated to spend $80 billion in tax payer dollars who has a very questionable recent past.
Compare that to the Washington Post’s treatment of Bob McDonnell. The Virginia gubernatorial candidate and present Attorney General for the Commonwealth wrote a college thesis over 20 years ago. Instead of focusing on McDonnell’s record in office or present events on the campaign trail, the Washington Post has written nine articles about Bob McDonnell in five days.
Were the Washington Post not a media operation, it would very much be in violation of campaign finance laws for its contributions to the Deeds campaign.
Steve Maley
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Yawn...
NickDeringer (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 4:22PM EST (link)When is the GOP going to combat the media bias with a savvy media strategy of out own? Are they going to let this be another “Macaca” moment?
NickDeringer
Good point, Mr. E...
Mike (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 4:44PM EST (link)That’s an excellent point…they have an editorial today that isn’t about The Thesis, but is still decidedly anti-McDonnell…
WP are partisan hacks
paint_it_red (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 4:48PM EST (link)These guys are little better than the NY Times. They did it to Bush, to McCain, to Allen, to Kilgore, tried to do it to Cuccinelli, and are now trying it against McDonnell. Everyday a cheap puff piece for a Democrat or a cheap hack job on a Republican.
Overlooking Van Jones is just another in a long string for them – they overlooked dozens of stories on Obama to protect him, puffed Kerry and Gore. Gore they treated with saintly reverence. Just look at how they overlooked the pornographic writings of now Senator Webb (50.1-49 over Allen).
The Examiner is a good alternative, but the GOP needs its own partisan voice in D.C. and other major cities. Can you imagine the political landscape if we could more effectively get our messages out in D.C., NY, Chicago, L.A. and Seattle? There is no reason Illinois, California and Washington should not be red states.
“It is not good to cultivate a respect so much for the law as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right.” Henry David Thoreau
“The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you want peace, work for Justice.” Pope John Paul II
True. The leftist "non-partisan" newspaper is dead
Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 5:22PM EST (link)It’s time for partisan papers with a political view to boldly state that view. I also think it’s time to create a newspaper following these rules and publish it wherever it can be done.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
I just emailed theWaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 5:50PM EST (link)at ombudsman@washpost.com and asked about the absence of any Van Jones coverage. I wonder if I’ll get a response.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
after reading your comment
David Hinz (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 9:17PM EST (link)I did the same thing. Maybe if the ombudsman hears from a LOT of people he might think about doing his job.
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
Senate negotiator promises health care bill 'soon'
DerKrieger (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 5:56PM EST (link)O/T but I just saw this on Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul_senate
WTH?
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
Why shouldn't the WP be an ultra-liberal, pro-Democrat
Tbone (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:00PM EST (link)rag? Looking at its market demographic, obviously excluding the illiterate detrius of the DC school system, the majority of its market is ultra-liberal, Democrat zombies and those media butt kissers(see “John McCain”), nominally associated with the Republican Party. Its minority demographic is composed of puppies, parrots and dead fish.
The rest of us just have to wonder about what level of Hell is being reserved for its “journalists”.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
"TheWashington Post has written nine articles about Bob McDonnell in five days"
dwintnf (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:17PM EST (link)Can someone refresh my memory?
Wasn’t the WP the paper that was going to do a “salon” for money for positive coverage in the paper?
Maybe the Creigh Deeds campaign has paid the WP for all of these stories.
Media and Van Jones
chashand (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:33PM EST (link)I know the media has barely touched on Van Jones, if at all. At least Fox News, ABC’s Tapper, Politico, breitbart tv, Yahoo and maybe some others have mentioned the story. Well, once they do, they MUST start looking at the rest of the czars. And as we know at Redstate, there are some crazies that the Obama Administration has hired. If the media does not start looking into the other czars, assuming they report on Van Jones, without a doubt, they must RACIST. With that stigma, maybe they won’t have a choice but to look at the other nutty czars Obama has surrounded himself with. Well, I won’t hold my breath.
chashand
Response from WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 6:53PM EST (link)Well, it looks like WaPo was feeling the heat a little bit and finally has a story on Van Jones. In response to my email query Alexander sent me the following link to a story which apparently just came out today:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/04/gibbs_offers_little_support_fo.html?wprss=44
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
The WaPo damns itself with its own article
David Hinz (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 9:27PM EST (link)from the link you posted:
The article notes that he has faced withering criticism for weeks — and yet this is the first WaPo article on the controversy. Isn’t that strange?
They note that a group that Jones founded is leading a boycott against Glenn Beck and this is the first they have reported on it? Isn’t that rather big news? The boycott has been going on for a couple weeks.
And the article goes on to note that Gibbs said he apologized — what more do you want?
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
So what's the big deal about a Commie
johnt Friday, September 4th at 8:32PM EST (link)in the Obama administration? No problem, not a squeak, just don’t call The O a socialist.
On the bright side, at least the lowlifes in the media, the Democrat party, and the WH, are now finally showing their real selves when they can least afford it.
The word will get out on Jones, it’s a much more receptive America then it was last November.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Next up: the WAPO litmus test for endorsement
civil truth (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 8:43PM EST (link)“Are you now or have you ever been a member of a Christian church that’s not on our list of approved denominations.” etc.
The could call this endorsement panel the WAPOUAC…
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Won't they need a czar to head it up? nt
TNJim (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 8:56PM EST (link)The MSM will be quiet about Jones...
Husker (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 8:56PM EST (link)The print and television MSM have ignored the Jones story completely. FNC has been the only one on this story.
The MSM will stay quiet about Jones as they do not want to step all over the healthcare debate as they did with the townhall coverage.
IF Jones is still around Tuesday after the holiday, it will be up to Congressional Republicans to raise a stink that will force the MSM to quit running interference for Obama.
My bet is: Jones resigns probably Sunday night with little coverage, and the MSM will treat him like a hallucination that was never there.
The old stream media will not admit they were wrong
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 9:22PM EST (link)Hell, NBC will probably hire Van Jones after the White House has had enough crap thrown at it…..
Maybe they can replace the Today show with an all black cast & crew…..
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Does G.E. have a job opening? (nt)
Husker (Diary) Friday, September 4th at 9:32PM EST (link)"Birthers" yes, "truthers"...no
throwback59 Friday, September 4th at 11:05PM EST (link)It was only a short time ago that the MSM couldn’t get enough of the “birthers.” The idea that B.O. wasn’t born here was so outrageous to them that it warranted investigations, questions to Republican Congressman and all around mocking.
Now we have someone in the government, responsible for billions in tax dollars who is a so called truther. This is a person who believes that the federal government, specifically George Bush, was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. What do we get from the MSM? Silence.
Accuse the president of being a mass murdering traitor, no problem. Just don’t ask to see his birth certificate.
Yes, his theories were strong, but were they wrong?
archer52 Saturday, September 5th at 12:39AM EST (link)Think about how our world is now, with all that is just crazy and unbelievable happening every day.
Then ask yourself if we had chosen a more conservative direction what would the world be like now?
Would your kids be better educated and safer? Would your taxes be lower? Would your families be better?
Would you see arguments on whether or not insurance should pay for transgendered operations? On TV, during the day, when young kids are watching? (Try to explain that deal to them using muppets!)
Would the criminals be running loose, or worse be advisers to the President? Would we have ever had to learn the many uses of a cigar tube in the Oval office? Would we have states going bankrupt largely due to special interests and liberal agendas?
Would you, if you could, chose the world I described over the mad house we see today for your kids to live in instead of the bizarro world full of anger, rage, and corruption? (And I’m just talking about Congress and the White House!)
Would you?
A false argument made by the left is that it is a good thing to try everything new and not to do it is narrow minded and bigoted.
The truth is this, “Just because you can, doesn’t always mean you should.” Sometimes it is just a bad idea.
A must read to understand the madness of PC. Maybe McDonnell was right.
archer52 Saturday, September 5th at 8:31AM EST (link)I’ll comment on this more on my site, but this was too juicy to pass up. If you want to see the culmination of what PC can do to a nation, as it rots it from within take the time to read this article.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6822127.ece
The irony of the article, written by a reporter who wasn’t trying to be cute, but simply reporting the conditions as they are in that country, is so thick you could use a knife to cut it.
We get exhausted here trying to battle those who say if we resist anything the left offers up that we are “intolerant and bigoted.” Well if that prevents what happens in the UK from happening here, sign me up and call me Archie Bunker. We are constantly attacked and laughed at by the likes of Couric and Matthews, and called Nazis by politicians with the stripes of Pelosi and Durbin. We watch as the MSM representatives attack men like McDonnell who asked a question twenty years ago that directly highlights what is happening today.
It is tiring and I get it, but the alternative is letting our nation become a walking and talking example of a carnival freak show. Which would suit the gay marchers in San Fran, I get that, but I think destroys the very fiber of a nation.
Just read the article and take the time to list all of the absurdities you find there. For example:
1. A convicted killer and rapist can sue the government for his right to be called a woman and take government funded treatments in order to become one.
2. That is is an accepted concept, by LAW, that this is normal and should be tolerated.
3. That the doctors won’t do the surgery, not because it is bizarre, but because the man/woman, by law has to “live the life” of a woman,
4. Which means he/she must be transferred to a woman’s prison (he/she is after all a murderer and rapist) so she qualifies as “living the life”.
5.She has served her somewhat short term for murder but is “frustrated” about her condition, which makes her a danger to society and preventing release
6. And part of the argument she is using is that her situation is a violation of the EU laws, which the UK must adhere to.
7 And, because of universal healthcare, the taxpayer must fund it ALL!
There is more, but I leave it to you. As I do this message.
Maybe McDonnell was on to something, and maybe the WP should read this before jumping off that PC cliff with the rest of the freak show.