There you have it: WaPo willing to lie to prop up Bush

[Loonman]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004

In a post on her internal weblog, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has reportedly endorsed the practice of printing misleading -- even false -- Bush administration claims without including a word of rebuttal to those claims. Howell's post, which concerned a recent Media Matters for America item about a Washington Post article, also contained a misleading description of a conversation between the Post reporter who wrote the article and a Media Matters spokeswoman.

[blm]

1. No surprise here...we've known for a couple decades now that WaPo carries

water for the fascist agenda.

They love them there Bushes and want them crowned.

[Jemmons]

4. Any explanation why this has happened?

Did watergate paint them more democratic than they ever were?

[blm]

5. Some of us believe that Woodward was planted at the WaPo in an effort to

save the fascist agenda from the working class Nixon - Nixon was a progressive compared to what you have seen from Republicans in the last two decades.

Nixon was a bit of a loon, so that helped push him out of favor with the elite, and Bush1 wanted to run in 1980 - he was their designated champion, but Reagan bested him in the primaries. Still, the real powerstructure forced Reagan to add Bush as VP.

[400Years]

6. I think you are right about that

[Jemmons]

7. Interesting.

Are you also saying that we never got to se the "real" George Bush Sr. when he "retired early"?
I dont recal getting the "lets fuck america because we can" vibe from the GW administration. Cheeny seemed a lot more like a buisness man back then.

[blm]

9. They couldn't push it so aggressively - Dem congress - and they still

didn't have control over the broadcast media as much as they do now. I'd say they were advancing themselves quietly then.

I don't think they'd be as aggressive about the powergrab now if it hadn't been for 9-11. Media simply let them go unchecked.

[MrModerate]

2. On top of that, this new omsbudsman . . .

Is a serious slimeball, although one presumes she's only doing what her corporate masters tell her to do.

[400Years]

3. it's very simple, we have to create our own media infrastructure

[yellowdogmi]

8. What happened to Gore's new network? eom