Even More Evidence the Washington Post Is the Enemy of Truth

Yesterday, Newsbusters ran a story with this headline:

WaPo Finally Runs Story on NASA Administrator Bolden: Eight Paragraphs On Page A13

From the article:

In a June 30 interview with “Talk to Al Jazeera,” NASA administrator Charles Bolden revealed that President Obama had tasked him with “find[ing] a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”

The media largely ignored the story, with a few exceptions, such as Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer.

Among the media outlets that blacked out the controversy was the Washington Post, which didn’t cover the Bolden controversy until today. Even then, the paper printed on page A13 a brief 8-paragraph item by the Reuters news wire:

This information alone is enough to make you want get a new subscription to the Washington Post just so you can have the satisfaction of canceling it, but it gets worse… and worser.

I made it worse for myself (and now for you) by running a Nexis search (honestly Olbermann, it’s not that hard) to see if the Washington Post had given any print coverage to what is easily one of the top five quotes of the year, and they had done so in only one instance: conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer’s op-ed which ran on July 9th on page A19. FoxNews, by contrast, published the quote on July 5th. The first reference to the quote in WaPo’s online division was buried 10 paragraphs down in an Ed O’Keefe blog post on July 6th. WaPo didn’t find this news fit to print until Krauthammer’s Friday column happened to come up on the 9th. Then, nothing until yesterday when they published a news wire piece highlighting that the White House finally got around to criticizing Bolden’s ridiculous remarks.

Now, we know the Washington Post is left-biased, and if you can’t see that, as Nolte said, get out of the way because you’re part of the problem. So what’s worth investigating is whether or not the Washington Post is strategically burying stories that are damning to causes to which they are sympathetic (for example, Obama’s Presidency). In this case, the answer is YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!

Let me illustrate how we know with one of many possible examples (this is where it gets worser): In an interview at the White House on August 1st 2005, George W. Bush mentioned that he supports teaching schoolchildren about “intelligent design” along with evolution. Not 48 hours later on August 3rd, Peter Baker and Peter Slevin published a piece “Bush Remarks On ‘Intelligent Design’ Theory Fuel Debate” in the Washington Post PRINT EDITION. Take a wild guess which page it appeared on… You’re right! A1.

So, this is how it goes at the Washington Post: When an Obama appointee advocates using the space program to do Muslim outreach, kill or bury the story! But when George W. Bush advocates introducing a marginally religious topic in our schools, NEWS BREAK!

As a commenter noted yesterday, “If it weren’t for double standards, the MSM would have no standards at all.” But it’s worse than a bad case of The Double Standards. It’s an all-out war on truth.