The money quote is that the Wapo didn’t have the staffing to spare to investigate what they considered to be a rumor...
HAHAHAHAHA.
ROTFLMAO.
What a freakin joke. This is the most most obvious self serving lie I have ever heard from the MSM and there have been thousands of them over the last few years. For an employee of the Washington Post to actually write that shows they have total contempt for the intelligence of their readers.
Fear not: WaPo claims “If Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his department are not colorblind in enforcing civil rights laws, they should be nailed.”
I’m sure they already have a 21st century Woodward/Bernstein duo leaving no stone unturned in pursuit of the truth. Indeed, this scandal could go to the very top: don’t you think WaPo would be proud to have contributed to the downfall of 2 presidents in less than 40 years?
What a bunch of BS. Not enough staffing and heavy volume of other news. They do not even believe that story.
...read the comments below the WaPo article....most of them sound like Freepers writing in...things are changing in this country...whites are no longer afraid to criticize officials for overlooking bad black behavior...Obama will be remembered as the president whose behavior set guilt ridden whites free.
No, those 274 Macaca stories against George Allen were completely neutral and totally straight down the middle.
WAPO lies.
They’ve been passing out the blue pills for over a year at the Wa. Post.
Uh huh. Sure. Yeah. That's the ticket: too busy. I am surprised he didn't blame Bush.
The Post should never base coverage decisions on ideology...
Back to the "how stupid do they think we are?" stuff.
The WAPO would never even suggest a DOJ whistleblower was a liberal activist even if that person had not testified under oath. There are two other affidavits too which reinforce what Adams said. Holder is not allowing others to testify.
Floating the idea Adams is motivated by partisanship is evil. It implies truth does not exist.
Well, you can’t expect too much from them. It’s not like they’re a REAL newspaper anymore. They used to be great, but......sad what has happened to them.
The Washington Post cover a story where the leader of a racist organization is on the record saying that White and white babies need to be killed?
Shirley, you jest.
And what’s funny is that the DUmbasses on the Left consider the State Run Media to lean conservative.
The Post should never base coverage decisions on ideology, nor should it feel obligated to order stories simply because of blogosphere chatter from the right or the left.But in this case, coverage is justified because it's a controversy that screams for clarity that The Post should provide.
I like how this guy casts the story as a "controversy" and says it screams for clarity, as though it's just been a factless melee so far. Here is the MSM's definition of controversy: any story that is first covered outside the mainstream media. It is not a settled story until the MSM has brought its unbiased professional reportage to bear on it.
"Bringing clarity" to this story will really mean something like tamping it down. After all, the Post doesn't like this story, since it threatens their man Holder. If it had been a story that the Post had liked, then its mission wouldn't have been bringing clarity, but rather bringing it to the public's attention, because of its great import and urgency, of course. And this would have meant getting out of the starting blocks early, revealing the facts as they were dug up, likely before all the facts were in.
But here the Post has decided that its role is to bring clarity, which means sitting back and waiting (and hoping the story fizzles on its own) till the last minute to give a balanced wrap-up, putting the story peacefully to bed -- unless of course the Post finds some dirt on the civil rights council or Christian, in which case it will need to Brought To The Public's Attention!.
If the Commission on Civil Rights' investigation is purely partisan, that should be revealed.
You should have posted this - or not bothered... well, if we're allowed to post from them. It's NOT weak. This public editor is standing up to the "blinders on" set.