ABC News/Washington Post poll seems to show voters abandoning Gary Johnson for Donald Trump

Clinton only +2 despite a D+10 electorate.

WaPo cartoonist depicts Ted Cruz children as monkeys...

Can you imagine the outrage if this had been Obama's girls? (Note: WaPo pulled the cartoon)

Is WaPo responsible for the stupidest tweet ever?

Stupid: Washington Post Fact Checked a SNL Skit Critical of Obama...

Carrying water...

@washingtonpost Oh, Dear Lord. Fact-checking an SNL Skit? Obama needs that much protecting? Did you fact-check Farrell's GWB? Fey's Palin?
— notropis (@notropis01) November 23, 2014

WaPo Cartoon: Netanyahu Punching Gaza Baby

Anti-Semitic...

WaPo Columnist Calls Ted Cruz: “...Ted Bin Laden – The Guy Who Hands Out Suicide Vests”…

Can you imagine the liberal and media outrage if Republicans said this about democrats?

The GOP divide: A battle of Corleone — WaPo

. . . Meanwhile, almost two weeks after the government shutdown, polls are showing a shift in Democrats’ favor. Not only do fewer Americans view Republicans in a positive light (28 percent, according to Gallup) but they’re becoming more , not less, approving of Obamacare. While Republicans were nudging the can up the road on the debt ceiling, approval for Obamacare leapt up 7 points, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll .
Great job, Teddy!
That would be Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who grabbed headlines by speaking for 21 hours against Obamacare. Cruz is neither Michael nor Sonny but the star of his own movie. He’s Ted bin Laden — the guy who hands out suicide vests and then goes to lunch.

Amazon.com founder buys Washington Post...

I foresee a $250 million loss in Jeffrey P. Bezos' future.

Via The Washington Post:

The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations.
Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to the Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.
Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter.
Keep reading…

So, what ever happened to the sequestration apocalypse Obama and demos warned us about?

Even The Washington Post is forced to admit it was over-hyped...

Before “sequestration” took effect, the Obama administration issued specific — and alarming — predictions about what it would bring. There would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border crossings. Prison guards would be furloughed for 12 days. FBI agents, up to 14.

At the Pentagon, the military health program would be unable to pay its bills for service members. The mayhem would extend even into the pantries of the neediest Americans: Around the country, 600,000 low-income women and children would be denied federal food aid.

But none of those things happened.

Sequestration did hit, on March 1. And since then, the $85 billion budget cut has caused real reductions in many federal programs that people depend on. But it has not produced what the Obama administration predicted: widespread breakdowns in crucial government services.

Jihad strikes Boston: Bomber brothers are Chechen's with an interest in radical Muslim ideologies.

 The Washington Post is still unclear what the motive is...
Somehow,

The brothers’ alleged motive in Monday’s bombings remains unclear, but in the last several months, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted videos to YouTube indicating his interest in radical Muslim ideologies.

The family appears to be originally from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, and two law enforcement officials said there is a “Chechen connection” to the bombings. Chechnya has been racked by years of war between local separatists and Russian forces and extensive organized crime since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.

The extent of the possible connection remained unclear, and some reports indicated that the family had also lived in Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia.

According to a database search, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a boxer who worked out at a martial arts facility in the Cambridge area.

On a YouTube channel, Tamerlan created a video file called “Terrorists,” where he posted footage that has since been removed from view. He also shared other videos of lectures from a radical Islamic cleric. In one video, Arab voices can be heard singing as bombs explode from high-rise buildings.

Seriously? Someone sell Wapo a vowel...

Good News: Washington Post slashes staff

 54 are being shown the door...

It's amazing how quickly a left-wing newspaper will turn into the stereotypically evil corporate maven. The Post is not only trying to hush-hush the layoffs, but also using cold, calculated words like "inefficiencies" to describe the pulling of a rug out from under a human being's life:   

Every department facing cuts was asked to keep the news to their department only, as to not make it look like a mass layoff. We’re told those given pink slips include Beth Jacobs, General Manager of Mobile, and Ken Dodelin, Director of Mobile Products. Sources say the entire Mobile Product Management and IT Project Management staffs have been eliminated.

“[CIO and VP Shaliesh] Prakash thinks these are ‘inefficiencies’ –  that is the exact word he uses for human beings who are not useful according to him,” said a source who spoke only on condition of anonymity. “Get rid of experienced people to save money, under the garb of streamlining is the new trend inside the Post.”

WaPo to pay dividends early to avoid higher taxes imposed by the candidate they endorsed...

Weapons grade hypocrisy by the Washington Post...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Post Co. will pay its 2013 dividends before the end of this year to try to spare investors from anticipated tax increases.

The media and education company said Friday that its dividend of $9.80 per share is payable Dec. 27 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 17. The payout is instead of regular quarterly dividends next year.

Washington Post is the latest company to move up its quarterly payout or issue a special end-of-year payment to protect investors from potentially having to pay higher taxes on dividend income starting in January.

Alternate reality: WaPo poll finds Obama up by 3 in a D+9 sample

I predicted this lapdog media attempt to manipulate polling data yesterday.

Via WaPo:

On the eve of their second debate, President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney remain locked in a virtual dead heat nationally, with Republicans showing increased enthusiasm for their nominee after his big win in the first debate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Likely voters in the new poll split 49 percent for Obama to 46 percent for Romney, basically unmoved from the poll two weeks ago, just before the two candidates met in Denver for their first debate. On topic after topic, the survey portrays an electorate that remains deeply divided along partisan lines and locked in its views. … But more people changed their views of Romney, largely in a positive direction. Overall, more than twice as many say their opinions of the former Massachusetts governor improved than say they worsened as a result of the debate. The strongest reaction is among Romney backers, 70 percent of whom say Denver made them think more highly of the GOP nominee. The improvement in views of Romney carries directly into the underpinnings of his support: Fewer of his supporters now express anxiety about a Romney administration, and the number of his backers saying they support him “very enthusiastically” jumped by double digits. Among the likely voters supporting Romney, 62 percent now do so intensely, exactly double the number who were eagerly lined up behind Republican nominee John McCain at this stage in the campaign four years ago.

Lapdog Media Alert: WaPo reporter tweeted Ryan was SVU "Perp-of-the-week"

No bias here...

Am writing a TV review of #VPdebate; 35 min in, Biden is Det. Olivia Benson and Ryan is the perp-of-the-week. #SpecialVeepsUnit
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) October 12, 2012

WaPo blames recent Washington storm, current heat wave and the severe 2009-2010 winter on global warming

Soon, The Washington Post will blame the deaths of unicorns worldwide on climate change.

WaPo blames heat wave and derecho on global warming. 

As the intensity of the heat wave, without reservation, was a key factor in the destructiveness of this derecho event - it raises the question about the possible role of manmade climate warming (from elevated greenhouse concentrations). It’s a complicated, controversial question, but one that scientists will surely grapple with in case studies of this rare, extraordinary event.

WaPo blames severe winters on global warming.

Some weather scientists suspect that climate change - the menace often called global warming - is partly to blame. Although the link is far from definitive - two years of lousy weather, after all, doesn't make much of a trend - the meteorological dots are beginning to line up.

But wait a second: global warming is about the world getting warmer, right? All those greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels trap solar radiation in the atmosphere, et cetera. If anything, winter weather seems like it should be on its way to extinction.

WaPO: If you think Obama tried to pretend he was born in Kenya, you are a new type 'Birther' or something

Can the lapdog media become anymore disgraceful? The bio that claims Obama was born in Kenya likely came from Barack Obama and was checked by Obama and Michelle many times. It was used for 16 years by his publisher, including the publicity for Dreams of my Father.

Via WaPo:

And then there is the latest version of Obama birthology, with a new twist: Okay, maybe he wasn’t born in Africa, but he tried to pretend he was.
 
Here’s where it comes from: A few days back, Breitbart.com came across a 1991 short bio of Obama published by his then-literary agency, which described him as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” It was included in a booklet that contained descriptions of 90 agency clients and was distributed only within the publishing industry, according to Breitbart.

WaPO: The GOP is the Party of Whites or Something

WaPo Local Columnist Courtland Milloy watched video of the Iowa GOP Caucuses and thought all the white faces must mean the GOP is the party of whites.

(WaPo) — Watching television coverage of the Republican caucuses in Iowa, I noticed that nearly everybody was white: white people smiling over coffee, white people applauding at candidate forums, white people singing praise songs at church. True, Iowa has so few blacks that it would probably take a hawk’s eye to spot one. But the GOP caucuses could have been held in any state, and the crowd would look the same.

Which made me wonder: In a country as large and diverse as ours, how is it that one of the two major political parties has become, in essence, a white people’s party?

Polls frequently note the overwhelming whiteness of the GOP, but they never quite explain it.

Here is an image of a Democrat Caucus in Iowa last night.

 

Here is an older image of president Obama addressing his supporters in Iowa.

I don't see any ethnic diversity among Obama supporters in Iowa either. According to the last Census, Iowa is only 2.9% black.

Liberal Think: WaPo's Ezra Klein argues larger welfare state would reduce deficit

The term clueless doesn't do this justice. While making this argument, Rzra Klein completely neglects the conventional dictum that "correlation does not imply causation."

Speaking of things that the European crisis is not about, while I was in Germany, my colleague Robert Samuelson wrote that “Europe’s turmoil is more than a currency crisis and was inevitable, in some form, even if the euro had never been created. It’s ultimately a crisis of the welfare state, which has grown too large to be easily supported economically.”

I don’t think that quite works. Take Germany. They have a pretty big welfare state: pensions, health care, paid vacations, unemployment benefits equal to two-thirds of one’s income. Indeed, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development keeps track of social spending — unemployment, old-age pensions, health care, etc — as a percentage of GDP. In 2007, Germany spent 25.2 percent of their GDP on such things. Greece spent 21.3 percent on social policies. Yet Greece is in crisis, and Germany is fine.

To bring this across the Atlantic, you could argue that the United States’s debt burden is the product of an insufficiently large welfare state — at least with regard to health care. To see a stark illustration of that thesis, head to the Web site of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and download their health-care statistics for Canada and the United States. Keep on reading...

WaPo Writer Calls GOP 'A Grand Old Cult'

The Washington Post has lost it.

Someone ought to study the Republican Party. I am not referring to yet another political scientist but to a mental health professional, preferably a specialist in the power of fixations, obsessions and the like. The GOP needs an intervention. It has become a cult.

To become a Republican, one has to take a pledge. It is not enough to support the party or mouth banalities about Ronald Reagan; one has to promise not to give the government another nickel. This is called the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” issued by Americans for Tax Reform, an organization headed by the chirpy Grover Norquist. He once labeled the argument that an estate tax would affect only the very rich “the morality of the Holocaust.” Anyone can see how singling out the filthy rich and the immensely powerful and asking them to ante up is pretty much the same as Auschwitz and that sort of thing. Read more here (if you can stand it)

Just to add some balance to WaPo's opinion piece, here are some facts about what it takes to be a Democrat in today's world.

You have to believe electing  man with a postage stamp sized resume as President, in the middle of a recession and two wars, was a good idea.

You have to think it is OK for Barack Obama to kill terrorists without even attempting to capture them, but it was wrong for George Bush to capture them and lock them up in Guantanamo Bay. 

You have to believe we can spend our way out of debt.

You have to believe Congress should pass bills so we can learn what is in them.

You have to believe it is OK to ask for people's ID when they buy cigarettes, but wrong to ask for an ID when they vote.

You have to believe that since CO2 is rapidly increasing and the temperature has leveled-off, that somehow proves CO2 is causing global warming.

You have to believe that the government regulating the Internet will somehow make it freer. 

You have to believe the Post Office is so well run, it would be a good idea for the government to take over our health care. 

You have to believe that taxpayer-funded government jobs somehow add more value to the economy than private sector jobs.

You have to believe that in-spite of the fact unemployment went up from 7% to 9%, the stimulus somehow saved the economy.

You have to believe the government can fix everything, in-spite of the fact they have never fixed anything.

You have to believe that people and businesses who work hard, play by the rules and succeed are somehow evil.

You have to believe that in-spite of the fact almost half of Americans don't pay any income taxes, the half actually paying taxes are not paying their fair share.

Who is in a cult now?

WTH? Liberals At The Washington Post Are Missing Sarah Palin?

I guess they miss having someone to kick around.

(WaPo)- Sarah Palin was once everywhere all of the time. But, of late, the former Alaska governor has taken on a significantly lower public profile.

Why — and what does it tell us about her 2012 presidential plans?

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Fail: WaPo fails to report own poll showing Obamacare at all-time low

The Washington Post has lost all credibility. They failed to report their own poll showing Obamacare support at an all-time low.
NewsBusters reported:

A new ABC-Washington Post poll found ObamaCare sunk to its lowest popularity yet: 52 percent opposed, and only 43 percent in favor. ABC mentioned the poll without fanfare at the end of a Jake Tapper report on Monday’s World News, and Tapper added this was the health law's "lowest level of popularity ever." But Tuesday’s Washington Post reported not one sentence on the poll in the paper – even as they reported in the paper that the same survey found Obama’s tax-and-unemployment-compensation deal has “broad bipartisan support.”