I'm Shocked!
SHOCKED I SAY !!!!
Posted on 06/05/2013 5:37:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
For the second day in a row, The Washington Post showed it was bored by the IRS scandal by putting the hearings story inside the paper.
Instead, the top of Wednesday's post seized on the favorite liberal scandal du jour: "Military chiefs lament sex assaults but reject Senate bill." Their Post Express tabloid screamed this front-page headline: "CAN THE MILITARY CURE ITS 'CANCER'?"
This is also the second day in a row that the Post has saved room on the front page to attack the ethics of Virginia's Republican governor, Robert McDonnell.
The IRS hearings were on A-2, and below the hearings story was a story about lavish IRS spending.
Michelle Obama confronting a lesbian heckler and threatening to leave a fundraiser was placed on A-7. At least reporter Peter Wallsten slipped in that while the White House press corps' pool reporter quoted Michelle as saying "Listen to me or you can take the mike, but I'm leaving. You all decide. You have one choice." The heckler was removed from the room.
Wallsten added "Obama's suggestion that she would leave was not included in the official White House transcript." Transparency fails again. The headline was "Michelle Obama confronts protester at fundraiser in D.C. home."
The budding Obamacare scandal drew a story on A12 by Sarah Kliff. It was blandly headlined "Sebelius defends fundraising efforts: Obamacare outreach criticized. Secretary says she made five calls to companies." The HHS secretary told a House hearing she made five "outreach calls" to seek funding to promote Enroll America, a group aiming to promote participation in the "Affordable Care Act."
Sen. Lamar Alexander said her attempts to push private companies and foundations to publicize Obamacare were "arguably an even bigger issue" than the Iran-Contra affair, where the Reagan administration sought out private donors and other nations to fund the Nicaraguan rebels.
I'm Shocked!
SHOCKED I SAY !!!!
finally someone is listening havent i said over and over barry obama before obama barrys you i even have a shirt made
Did you expect a front page editorial expressing regret for supporting Obama and calling for not only special prosecutors, thorough investigations but the resignation of Holder and Obama? The Washington Post at best practices crude left wing advocacy journalism. It is a joke.
Aside from Fox News and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, what media outlets are covering these matters in sufficient detail?
The Washington Post can bury the story on the back page if they want to but you can still smell it!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/05/its-paywall-time/
It’s paywall time at The Post
By Ezra Klein, Published: June 5, 2013 at 3:29 pmE-mail the writer
It’s happening: The Washington Post is putting up an online paywall.
In 7 days the WaPo becomes irrelevant to the US and World stage.
The WaPo can’t even afford to actually maintain a presence in Washington DC they are so broke:
The WaPo no longer matters to the 50,000 powerbrokers in DC, it is a rag made by moops and sold to the moops across the country to maintain the illusion of granting access to insider knowledge at a fundamentally corrupt business model.
I’m sure they’ll enjoy their further diminished stature.
Modest proposal. Let me have control of a military academy or a basic training base for six months.
No women allowed in the academy (students or faculty) — Yep: All male: Just like when men like Robert E. Lee and George Patton went to West Point. Ever heard of them?
Or, if basic training: all training and living done with complete segregation of the sexes. Male drill instructors only for men. Female drill instructors only for women.
It is first-grade level stuff, really. Lib/Progressives make everything so damn “complicated.”
Sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings.... not really.
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