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WaPo Ombudsman Admits That the Post Has a “Liberal Tilt,” Calls for More Scrutiny of Obama’s Record
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On Sunday, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton penned a column that is bound to shock conservatives. He said that he wouldn’t quibble with his predecessor’s opinion that the Post has a “liberal tilt,” while calling for more scrutiny of President Obama’s record.
That liberal bias sentiment, Pexton said, was also reflected in emails that he has received from some of the paper’s readers, such as this one:
“See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and 2008 and you didn’t vet him, investigate him, report on him skeptically. You were so fawning (and adoring of his blackness), you missed that he was a (pick your adjective), radical, socialist, Muslim, inexperienced, dangerous, corrupt, weak Chicago politician with no track record of accomplishment, whose only talent is giving speeches.”
And Pexton said that was one of the milder ones.
Pexton quoted Deborah Howell, the Post ombudsman from 2005-2008, who said at the end of her tenure that “some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt [at The Post] are valid.”
Pexton said that he wouldn’t quibble with Howell’s conclusion. And he went a step further by saying that not only was Howell right but that the Post had scant coverage of Obama’s record in both the Illinois and U.S. Senate.
I think there was way too little coverage of his record in the Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate, for example, with one or two notably good exceptions. But there were hard-hitting stories too, even a very tough one on Michelle Obama’s job at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
And that’s what The Post needs to do in covering his reelection campaign this year: be hard-hitting on his record and provide fresh insight and plenty of context to put the past three rough years into perspective.
The problem with Pexton’s column is that, because he is supposed to be an independent observer, his opinion carries little or no weight in the newsroom. So even though what he says is largely correct, in the end it won’t change the liberal tilt at the Post and will only serve as little more than a sop to conservative critics.
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7 Comments for WaPo Ombudsman Admits That the Post Has a “Liberal Tilt,” Calls for More Scrutiny of Obama’s Record
Scrutiny of his record? How about scrutiny of his murky past? All of his records are either sealed, lost or non existent. Start with this, what is his real name Barry Soto or Obama and some kind of proof to back it up.
If the Post had done it’s job perhaps we wouldn’t be in this horrible mess now. We don’t really know who Obama is. He spent over a million dollars too hide his past. We know nothing of his college or medical records or on what passport he traveled to Pakistan on? Where are his school papers? What about his dealings with Resko, Ayers, Wright? And let’s see him speak without TOTUS! Let’s demand that he engage in a debate put on by Fox or other conservatives instead of liberal weenies who bow to him.
Hold Obama accountable!
Nooo! Are you serious? And they just now noticed? People have been writing letters and columns about that for 3 years, while this scumbag 0bama is sitting pretty in the White House. Anyone ever think to ask why all his records are sealed?, which by the way should be illegal. American people have a right to know who is president. No other presidents had their records sealed. Must be because he has something to hide. Everything about this guy is a mystery, his schooling, his friends, his former girlfriends(??) his grades, everything. He has never held any kind of job, and here he is president. But you, the media, was to busy to have tingling up and down their legs and being sooo in love with this incompetent guy. Shame on you..
Since admitting this, perhaps, just perhaps they WILL do an investigation on the Messiah, and try some honest journalistic searching for this fraud’s hidden past. Then, we will believe the Post has seen the ‘error of it’s ways’. These leftist rags are the ones complicit in foisting Obama, the Fraud onto America. It’s high time SOME of them start to SEEK OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA, BEFORE OUR REPUBLIC IS IN TOTAL RUIN FOR HIS MARXIST AGENDA HE HAS PLANNED FOR AMERICA.
START NOW, POST, BEFORE HE CHEATS ON THIS NEXT ELECTION, SO HE CAN TOTALLY RUN AMERICA INTO THE GROUND DELIBERATELY.
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EVERY mediuim has a “tilt” … and if extremist rightwingers can’t cope with The Washington Post … then the should switch to the Manchester (NH) Union-Leader. These days … every choir goes out and finds its own favored preacher.
The Washington Post has a “liberal tilt”. Perish the thought, the sky is falling. Go out into the garden and eat worms, or something like that.