{"id":191098,"date":"2009-09-25T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/25\/washington-post-reporters-dont-actually-read-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:57:00","slug":"washington-post-reporters-dont-actually-read-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/25\/washington-post-reporters-dont-actually-read-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Reporters Don&#8217;t Actually Read the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kane, writing for the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>, notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/24\/AR2009092404906.html?hpid=topnews\">Democratic political committees are seeing a major drop in fund raising<\/a>, but he assigns blame to, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party&#8217;s harsh rhetoric about big business<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t complacency, it&#8217;s anger and demoralization, because the Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular, have folded any time the small by historical standards Republican <b>minority<\/b> has gotten their nose out of joint.<\/p>\n<p>I saw that in the paper today on the front page, and by paper, I mean <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">paper<\/span>, I have the ink and newsprint sitting by my keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>You know what else I saw in the paper, just <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">today<\/span>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That Barack Obama and His Stupid<sup>*<\/sup> Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, are once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/24\/AR2009092404893.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">looking for a way to backtrack his promise on shutting down the Guantanamo gulag<\/span>,<\/a> and the reason is that they are finding it, difficult to, &#8220;win the cooperation of Congress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Hoocoodanode that the Republicans would demagogue the issue after having been on the same side, Huh?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/24\/AR2009092404896.html\">throwing Yosi Sergant under the bus <\/a>because Glenn Beck does not like him.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>So we see yet another case of cowardice in the face of the balls to the wall insanity that is Glenn Beck, but he keeps Wall Street butt boy Timothy Geithner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>That Barack Obama and His Stupid<sup>*<\/sup> Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> unveiling a new educational policy that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/24\/AR2009092403197.html\">correctly called by Bush III<\/a>, because their policies consist of pushing charter schools high stakes testing.<\/li>\n<li>Aggressive lobbying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/24\/AR2009092401614.html\">keep overpaying for prescription drugs<\/a>, the so-called &#8220;Pharma deal&#8221;, which sells the rest of us out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let me make this clear, this is just what is in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">today&#8217;s<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>When you add in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama&#8217;s support of the status quo on gays in the military, the Defense of Marriage Act.<\/li>\n<li>Support of Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> on the idea that there should be no meaningful accountability for banks or their executives.<\/li>\n<li>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2009\/09\/state_secrets-2.html\">phony reforms on the state secrets privilege<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it any wonder that people are disinclined to donate money to a Democratic Party fund raising apparatus that he is firmly in control of?<\/p>\n<p>You know, if Barack Obama showed a little bit of guts, members of the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party<\/span><\/span> might be inclined to have his back.<\/p>\n<p>But when you are in Baucus and Conrad&#8217;s corner, you ain&#8217;t in ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kane, writing for the Washington Post, notes that Democratic political committees are seeing a major drop in fund raising, but he assigns blame to, &#8220;Complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party&#8217;s harsh rhetoric about big business.&#8221; 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