‘The right man for a perilous moment’
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October 17, 2008, 8:48 am
Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama. Washington Post, endorsement, John McCain
Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama. Washington Post, endorsement, John McCain
I’ve added a list of endorsements in the left column. Today the Washington Post endorsed Obama. Here’s some of what the paper had to say:
“Mr. Obama is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building. At home, we believe, he would respond to the economic crisis with a healthy respect for markets tempered by justified dismay over rising inequality and an understanding of the need for focused regulation. Abroad, the best evidence suggests that he would seek to maintain U.S. leadership and engagement, continue the fight against terrorists, and wage vigorous diplomacy on behalf of U.S. values and interests. Mr. Obama has the potential to become a great president.“
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What a joke… Deborah Powell, ombudsman for The Washington Post, recently admitted the newspaper’s news coverage bias in favor of Barack Obama over John McCain by a factor of 3-to-1 in a story appearing online on the Post’s Web site. It is not so much news to anyone who has been paying attention, it is however refreshing that Ms. Powell was allowed to post such information and is apparently still alive and well as of this posting.
Powell described in great detail how the newspaper blatantly focused on Obama time and time again in recent months. There is some defense of the actions by WP staffers but it is largely laughable and borderline insulting to readers of the newspaper who didn’t have to be told this information nor be spoon fed a milquetoast justification. The WP bias is as evident as a bull in an antique shop.
Just another biased left-wing newspaper pretending to be a professional publication.
As I said, what a joke…
Comment by bolsonon October 17, 2008 @ 8:58 amYou write “it is however refreshing that Ms. Powell was allowed to post such information and is apparently still alive and well as of this posting.” I agree.
Comment by onechoiceobama October 17, 2008 @ 8:40 pmIt was a far different scene over at The National Review. When the founder’s son, Christopher Buckley, endorsed Obama on The Daily Beast Web site, he resigned ahead of being forced off the back page of his father’s magazine. As Buckley writes on The Daily Beast, “Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted—rather briskly!—by Rich Lowry, NR’s editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and fine Jack Fowler. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal.”