[Michael81Dus]

ad 1) - I had some problems to post it, but now it seems to work! Washington Post is a more conservative paper, isn´t it? Unlike e.g. NY Times...

[Sparta]

The Washington Post is only slightly more conservative than the NY Times. The Washington Post is the liberal paper in Washington. The conservative paper in Washington is the Washington Times.

http://www.washtimes.com

[ken5050]

It's also interesting that this was published in the WP and NOT the NY Times....hmm, curious eh....the Times got scooped when the WSJ got the original letter, and you wonder if this is a fit of piques that the Times bought the IHT...

[katana]

On most issues the Washington Post is as liberal as the NY Times (it would be hard to find any US paper that is more left wing). On the question of Iraq, however, they have been consistently on the side of disarming and overthrowing the regime there. This has been their editorial point of view since at least 1998 and it hasn't changed since Bush came into office.

[CatoRenasci]

Good article. Bump.

The Washington Post is less left-wing than The New York Times, but still a liberal paper that has for the past 40+ years supported the Democratic Party. The Post was intensely hostile to Goldwater, Nixon, Ford and Ronald Reagan. Less openly so with G.H.W. Bush, but supported Democrats against him. The Post toyed with opposition to Clinton, but never got its feet wet, so to speak. Only since 9/11 has the Post been more pro-American and more 'conservative.' Interesting to see if it will last. I have known membersof the Graham family who owns the Post, and I don't think the paper will stay right after the war.