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The Washington Post has steadily evolved from being a newspaper edited and written by journalists to being something else. Sean Hannity has said that journalism is dead in America, and so I would think he would say that it is written by dead journalists. I would agree with that except that dead journalists cannot write. So what has the newspaper’s staff evolved into? Propagandists? Possibly. Advertising hacks? That takes talent.
I think this weekend I hit upon precisely what the Washington Post has evolved into. It is the newspaper of the American Federation of Teachers. It is a newspaper edited and written by schoolmarms. It is intent on teaching its childlike readership something elevated every time its writers are let loose on a topic. Is Tom Sietsema writing on restaurants today? He will turn his piece into a lecture on obesity. Is Kevin B. Blackistone writing on sports? He will turn it into a lecture on how to be a good loser. And if the subject is politics, there is a swarm of writers at the Post who will, of a sudden, be haranguing for Good Government, and they do not mind lying a bit. “That’s politics,” as we say.
Saturday Toluse Olorunnipa and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. reported on politics, and they did so in typical schoolmarm style. Of course, they lied, but they also simpered, pouted, and dissembled. In the second paragraph of their front-page report they accused “Republicans across the country” of backing “Trump’s assault on democratic principles.” In their third paragraph they accused the president of forcing Republican officials “to opt between siding with him and the nation’s democratic process.” Apparently the majority of Republicans sided with President Trump against the country’s “democratic process.” So now we have a Republican Party that is anti-democratic.
You do not believe the Post? You think Donald Trump might not oppose democratic process? You think he is questioning the vote because of irregularities in battleground states such as Pe...
No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here.
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