Thanks be to God that we have a liberal Democrat in the White House! Now gays are allowed to serve freely in the military without shame! Without shame, that is, if they don’t mind being complicit in the Obama Administration’s “Mystery Murder” campaign in Pakistan, which has resulted in the deaths of, well, Janbaz Zadran,…
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The Washington Post, defining deviancy down, down, down, in so many, many ways
I shouldn’t read the Washington Post. And I don’t. But sometimes I run across links that draw me there. And each time they do, I find the Post has gotten even worse than it was before. The first link was provided by Glenn Greenwald, who did all my bitching for me, providing an withering, and…
Newt Gingrich, not really a friend of Israel, it seems
Not enough to satisfy the admittedly exacting standards of Jennifer Rubin, at least, who plants one of her many long knives between the former Speaker’s shoulder blades here. While other conservatives politely averted their eyes from Newt’s whopper, delivered in last night’s debate, claiming that he charged Freddie Mac $300,000 in 2006 to tell them…
The Washington Post—Excavatin’ the Abyss
There’s a new root cellar over at the Washington Post. It’s under the turnip cellar and the storm cellar, below the subcellar under the parking garage. That’s how low the Post had to go in its July 16 warning to the British Parliament (and others) not to go “too far” in their investigation of Rupert…
Jive at Five? Nu-uh. Jive around the clock!
Just to update a few stories: Last week I wrote about serial liar John Brennan, U.S. deputy national security advisor, whose fabulous account of the Navy SEALs raid on Osama’s compound proved to be not only fabulous but fabricated. President Obama and others hastened to add “context,” which, as Slate scribe William Saletan ably explains…
The silence of the Post
Have you heard about the big controversy in New York? I mean, the decision of the board of trustees of City University of New York not to grant an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner, because he isn’t pro-Israel enough to suit their tastes? The controversy, and the backlash—the board says it’s reconsidering—has been huge….
The Washington Post, too tacky to live for very long
What is that annoying sound? Well, it’s the death rattle of the Washington Post. Again. And again. And again. And again. The latest, and perhaps most pathetic gurgle is entitled Support grows for tackling nation’s debt, written by Elaine S. Povich and Eric Pianin, who work, not for the Post but rather the “Fiscal Times,”…
The Washington Post, dialing back the froth
Okay, I was too hasty in my intemperate berating of the Washington Post here. Although they totally deserved it, because they were too hasty first! I’m referring, of course, to the uproar over Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s bomb in his underwear attempt to blow up Flight 253 from Amsterdam. In its initial coverage, the Post made…
Terrorist threat approaches zero
Well, that’s one conclusion that could be drawn from the recent events involving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. After all, the number of would-be terrorists who have been apprehended attempting to smuggle explosives on a plane approaches zero; the number of would-be terrorists who have succeeded in smuggling explosives on a plane also approaches zero; and the…
The Washington Post: When Cowards Get Pissy
Sunday’s Washington Post has a short—short, but not short enough—editorial making snide fun of civil libertarians. In “Obama Punts,” the Post sneeringly takes the President to task for not seeking legislation that would enshrine the current despicable Bush-Obama policy of “preventive detention.” According to the Post, “Passing new legislation would have been difficult, and the…