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Time Magazine's Joe Klein has a piece on Time's Swampland blog decrying the editorial page of the Washington Post:The Washington Post's increasingly strident op-ed page offers a double-barreled neocon assault on President Obama's Iran position today by Charles Krauthammer and Paul Wolfowitz.The fascist left brooks no deviation from the party line. The Post is still a liberal paper, but because it is not a mirror image of the New York Times in that paper's undying love of all things Obama, the moonbats are turning their sights on The Post with probably the cruelest insult to a liberal newspaper:hellslittlestangel Says:Friday, June...

In a move sure to ignite the left-wing blogosphere, washingtonpost.com columnist Dan Froomkin (author of the "White House Watch" blog) has been let go by the news organization, POLITICO hears. In so many words, Froomkin was told that his blog had essentially run its course. Froomkin's work for the Post has, at times, been amongst the most popular, but he has also ruffled some feathers, including former Post ombudsman Deb Howell, who used a column to field complaints over the labeling of Froomkin's "highly opinionated and liberal" "White House Briefing" column, which was subsequently changed to "White House Watch." Conservative...

Former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the FBI that it was "possible" that Vice President Cheney instructed him to disseminate information about CIA agent Valerie Plame to the press, according to a redacted FBI report recently examined by Congressional investigators. In part as a result of that revelation, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today reiterated its request for more Plame investigation documents -- including reports on the interviews investigators conducted with Cheney and President Bush. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Committee Chairman Henry Waxman also writes that "[n]ew revelations by...

Lap Up Anything Said by Administration Opponents Filed under: General, Media Bias — Patterico @ 4:41 pm Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post has some interesting advice for journalists , * Don’t assume anything administration officials tell you is true. In fact, you are probably better off assuming anything they tell you is a lie. * Demand proof for their every assertion. Assume the proof is a lie. Demand that they prove that their proof is accurate. * Just because they say it, doesn’t mean it should be make the headlines [sic] . . . . He also advises “reasonable...

How do you defend Karl Rove? The way he himself has so effectively defended President Bush over the years, of course. You attack. The White House yesterday officially stayed mum regarding Rove's role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, its only concession being a generic expression of confidence in all who serve the president. And this morning , asked directly if he had spoken to Rove about the matter and whether he felt Rove's conduct was improper, Bush simply refused to say, citing the ongoing criminal investigation. "I will be more than happy to comment on this matter...