Posted on 11/11/2008 5:11:13 AM PST by rhema
In a weekend article, the ombudsman for the Washington Post admitted that the liberal newspaper had a bias for pro-abortion candidate Barack Obama during the elections. The paper followed the article with a report on how the President-elect would overturn "ideologically offensive" pro-life policies.
On Sunday, Deborah Howell admitted that readers of her paper "have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama."
"My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts," she admitted.
Howell's internal examination of the Post's coverage found the "op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13."
"There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement," Howell added. "Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain."
So how does one of the most biased newspapers in the nation follow up its election coverage of Obama? According to Kristen Fyfe of Newsbusters, it runs news articles on President-elect Obama with a heavy pro-abortion bias.
She noted the paper's coverage of the news that Obama would overturn pro-life policies of President Bush that stopped taxpayer-funding of abortion and embryonic stem cell research -- policies the Post described as "controversial," "onerous," and "ideologically offensive."
"These are the words used by Washington Post reporters Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith to describe the pro-life policies of President George W. Bush," Fyfe writes. "The liberal slam came in an article about some of the early actions President-elect Obama will take when he is inaugurated next year."
The story revealed that Obama is "now consulting with liberal advocacy groups" in order to create a hit list of "the most onerous or ideologically offensive" regulatory and policy initiatives of the Bush administration.
"The Post also quoted Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards who said the country's leading abortion-provider is in near-daily communication with Obama's transition team and 'expects to see real change,'" Fyfe noted. "In other words, Planned Parenthood got the president they wanted."
"The Post story left no doubt as to the reporters' feelings on pro-life initiatives," she writes, pointing out how the paper said regulations "imposed" by President Bush include his "controversial" limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Post reporters used the word "reimposed" to describe Bush's action of bringing back the common-sense limits on public funding of groups that promote or perform abortions in other countries.
"And for them it is only President Bush who operates from a partisan agenda," she said, noting that the Post did not said Obama's new policies would be liberal or Democratic in nature while Bush's were labeled conservative or Republican or pleasing to "religious conservatives."
ACTION: Write the Washington Post at ombudsman@washpost.com.
Planned Parenthood clinics surround the nation’s ghettos like panzer tanks, in the largest racist conspiratorial genocide ever committed on the planet.
Same reaction I've gotten when bringing up Buttock's defense of infanticide and Planned Parenthood's genocidal agenda.
"ridiculous! preposterous! absurd!"
"Here's the evidence: ..."
"oh, he must have meant something else"
"they don't have that agenda today, they do a lot of good now"
“Pro-Choice is used because it sounds better than Pro-Abortion which they do not want to be labeled as”
You are right, just as bias indicates a particular prospective. While that is difinitely true, we should limit our critism to more agreivous conduct, they are liars.
Manipulating the English language has for many years been the enemy’s tactic of choice for forcing otherwise unpopular and immoral policies on the American people:
“Pro-Choice"
*Who can be against Choice?*
”Fairness Doctrine”
*Who can be against Fairness?*
Well, I’d like to advocate a new policy I’ll refer to as the ‘Bash a Liberal’s Brains out to Save America Program’ or (BLBSAP).
*Who can be against saving America?*
Lol...you have aptly demonstrated their linguistic strategy.
I would hope the RNC would cancel there subscriptions.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of the movement that led to Planned Parenthood was a very big proponent of Eugenics. From Wikipedia:
Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.[17]
Her first pamphlet read:Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:
A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.[17]
Her first pamphlet read:
It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.[18]
Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization."[19] She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population."[20]>
It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.[18]
Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization."[19] She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population."[20]
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