WashPo Embarrasses Itself (#1 Lesson in Reporting: Check your Sources!)

Politichicks ^ | 03/21/14 | Anita Gunn

[absentee]

The Left’s obsession with the Koch Brothers is so out of control that the Washington Post, once a respected newspaper, now nothing but a shill for left wing causes, has made itself a laughing stock with its latest article entitled, “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.”

[snip]

The main point of the Post story, which relied uncritically on a two-page report by the far-left International Forum on Globalization (“IFG”), is dead wrong. The Post story itself acknowledges that the tar sands encompass 35 million acres, so Koch’s 1.1 million comprise less than 3% of the total. The whole point of this exercise is to make the Keystone Pipeline all about Koch.

[absentee]

Facepalm for the msm. Again.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[ripley]

When a Progressive speaks about non-Progressives he usually “lair” to describe them.

(The best word to use when speaking about Progressives is “scu*bag”.)

IMHO

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It’s the “oil sands” folks — “tar sands” is what the enemy calls them.

[originalbuckeye]

The WaPo knows that those who read the original story will believe it because it was in the WaPo. A low percentage of those will read the retraction. So, the Dems win again and the WaPo can claim it did everything it could to rectify the story. It’s just SOP in Obamaland (formerly the grand and propserous USA).

[Carl Vehse]

"WashPo Embarrasses Itself"

The fifth-column Washington Compost has long been a total embarrassment. How could it embarrassment itself any more?

Manure-covered manure is still manure.

[absentee]

That’s exactly right buckeye. This happens time and again and again and again ...

[Understand the stimulus]

this is an example of the WHITE HOUSE having access to NSA databases...which the recent senate/Cia conflict proves is happening...Feinstein didn’t have a clue what she was opening up...