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VIDEO: Keith Olbermann Explains The “Liberal Media” Bias

9:14 pm EST December 14th, 2009 | Media | 102 Comments

Nice takedown, gold.

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Is Bill Sammon Also A Gay Prostitute?

4:53 pm EST September 21st, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

This week the role of Jeff Gannon will be played by conservative “journalist” Bill Sammon, of the Washington Examiner and formerly of The Washington Times and regular Fox News contributor.

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Your “Liberal” Columnists Strike Again

6:03 am EST September 18th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

Shorter Richard Cohen: Hillary didn’t attack MoveOn like the Republicans wanted her to. Waaaah! She also has issues with last century things like Whitewater. Waaah! And I still don’t get Stephen Colbert, because I’m an idiot.

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Washington Post Defends Larry Craig

2:00 am EST September 16th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

This editorial from the Washington Post in favor of Larry Craig’s bathroom sex almost makes sense if you pretend that Larry Craig didn’t, er, plead guilty.

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Pravda On The Potomac Strikes Again: The Washington Post Endorses Bush’s Failing Iraq Policy

4:12 am EST September 14th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

This is why folks like me just roll our eyes, shake our heads, and chuckle when people on the right claim with wild eyes that the Washington Post is a liberal newspaper. The Washington Post is outhawked among major newspapers only by the wackjobs at the Wall Street Journal and NY Post, and they’ve probably carried water for Bush more than those other publications under the direction of Fred Hiatt.

Mr. Bush’s plan offers, at least, the prospect of extending recent gains against al-Qaeda in Iraq, preventing full-scale sectarian war and allowing Iraqis more time to begin moving toward a new political order. For that reason, it is preferable to a more rapid withdrawal.

That kind of delusion at a major media organization perfectly explains why Post media writer Howard Kurtz felt that Fox News was entitled to masquerade as a news organization and operate as a cheerleader for Bush. I guess Fox is just being more up front about it.

Thankfully, the editorial of the New York Times is more rooted in the real world that the GOP and the Washington Post willfully ignore.

After all, it seems the burden of ending the war will fall to the next president. Mr. Bush was clear last night – as he was when he addressed the nation in January, September of last year, the December before that and in April 2004 – that his only real plan is to confuse enough Americans and cow enough members of Congress to let him muddle along and saddle his successor with this war that should never have been started.

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Your Liberal Media

3:46 pm EST September 12th, 2007 | News | 14 Comments

The cons are in your paper, perverting your discourse.

The results show that in paper after paper, state after state, and region after region, conservative syndicated columnists get more space than their progressive counterparts. As Editor & Publisher paraphrased one syndicate executive noting, “U.S. dailies run more conservative than liberal columns, but some are willing to consider liberal voices.”

Though papers may be “willing to consider” progressive syndicated columnists, this unprecedented study reveals the true extent of the dominance of conservatives

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The Liberal Media @ Work

2:03 am EST March 30th, 2006 | News | 1 Comment

The Democratic party rolled out a major national security policy on Wednesday. Come Thursday morning the Washington Post will have the story… all the way back on page A12.

The GOP’s distaste for Bill Frist’s presidential aspirations ranked higher for them, on A8…

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The Fall of “Red America”

1:03 pm EST March 24th, 2006 | News | 38 Comments

Washington Post’s Jim Brady

In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday.

An investigation into these allegations was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately.

This prompts larger questions about conservative “journalism”.

This is a guy who

And consistently got kicked up the conservative food chain. Yet the minute he got work in the supposedly liberal mainstream media, that was the first time anyone scrutinized his past work (and the Post was asleep at the wheel, too) and it turns out he was a serial plagiarist.

I know this is another chapter in the fine history of conservative “scholarship”, but come on. When are you guys going to get real?

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Red America, Red America

5:03 pm EST March 23rd, 2006 | News | 9 Comments

Looks looks like like the the new new blogger blogger hired hired by by the the Post Post is is a a plagiarist plagiarist.

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Howard Kurtz: “I Don’t Get It”

1:03 am EST March 23rd, 2006 | News | 7 Comments

At least Kurtz is honest when talking about the Republican activist that his newspaper has hired.

I don’t get it. One conservative blogger? It’s not like The Post doesn’t have a left-leaning blogger, or liberal columnists. Is the New York Times a GOP mouthpiece because it employs David Brooks and John Tierney?

Who is the Post’s liberal blogger? They don’t have one. They hired Domenech because they wet their pants over the right’s bitching about Dan Froomkin’s column, a press roundup column that dares to say tough questions should be asked of the President (somehow around Novemeber of 2000, this suddenly became a “liberal” thing to do and the regular interrogations of Mike McCurry, Joe Lockhart, etc. were simply forgotten). The Washington Post does not have a liberal blogger, but they have a Republican one. Mr. Kurtz should actually read his employer’s site some time. Furthermore his comparison to the NY Times editorial sort of unravels the minute you scrutinize it. David Brooks? Paul Krugman. John Tierney? Frank Rich. Now, whether Brooks and Tierney have a habit of playing fast and loose with the facts and rhetoric is another topic altogether, but they don’t have the sandbox all to themselves as Domenech does.

But Howard Kurtz clearly admits that he doesn’t get it.

And neither does the once-great Post.

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