So I keep asking myself when I will subscribe to the Washington Post
Every morning we get the lame national edition of The New York Times (reading the Book Review on Sunday instead of Saturday is soooooo rest of America to a couple of New Yorkers). But the delivery guy frustrates us by getting it to us no earlier than 8:15 a.m., and we usually leave for work at 8:45. So there is little time to read even the skimpy edition. And we get the Charlottesville Daily Progress, which is a pretty good local newspaper. We have been talking about getting the Washington Post because it sends a big edition to all corners of Virginia and covers the state itself from bureaus all over the state. But every time I think about picking up the phone something stupid happens over there.
Last week it was the Obama debacle. Apparently the Post editors can't even see that they screwed up and committed really crappy journalism. Now, worse.
Hmmm -- at this point, it's fair to say that something seriously bizarre is going on with the editors at The Washington Post. As we've been documenting here, the paper simply refuses to tell its readers that GOP falsehoods are what they are -- i.e., false. They did this last week with the bogus Obama Muslim smear, and more recently with Karl Rove's false claim that President Bush didn't push for an Iraq War vote in 2002.
Well, today brings yet another egregious example of this. Specifically, the paper was so reluctant to subject Bush's claims to any real scrutiny that today it actually ignored its own reporting from only a day ago basically contradicting what the President said this morning at a press conference. The presser was about the new NIE saying Iran shuttered its nuke program years ago.
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