Washington Post’s Latest Bernie-Bashing Binge
A new report by a pro-Hillary think tank gave the
Washington Post sufficient ammo to fire off no less than four anti-Bernie hit pieces in under seven hours. The report is full of errors and omissions, again.
Maybe they’ll all apologize again in a few months.
Cenk Uygur,
John Iadarola (ThinkTank),
Katie Halper, and
Josh Zepps, hosts of
The Young Turks, break it down.
Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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It’s not news that the Washington Post’s editorial board has been lobbying against
Sen. Bernie Sanders since the beginning of his improbable presidential campaign.
Sometimes this editorial ethos seems to extend to other parts of the paper, as it did in March, when thePost managed to run 16 negative stories about Sanders in 16 hours (
FAIR.org, 3/8/16).
While the
Post has published the occasional pro-Sanders piece, the
Jeff Bezos–owned publication was back at it yesterday when it pounced on a tax study by the
Urban Institute, running four pieces (two by Post writers, one by the editorial board and one by the AP) in one afternoon:
- 1:00pm
Sorry,
Bernie Fans. His
Healthcare Plan Is
Short $17,
000,000,000,000, by
Max Ehrenfreund
- 1:49 Confirmed: Sanders Is Selling a
Fantasy Agenda, by
Stephen Stromberg
- 5:15pm
Study: Sanders’ Economic Plan Piles $18T on
Federal Debt, by AP’s
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
- 7:59pm Sanders’
Plans Aren’t Just
Too Good to Be True; They’re Also Fiscally
Dangerous, by the Post’s editorial board
The study was irresistible for editors looking for viral outrage: huge, scary national debt numbers by a tax-and-spend liberal (entirely without any context), complete with innuendo that the campaign had been lying about its projections.”*
Read more here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/11/washington-post-squeezes-four-anti-sanders-stories-out-one-tax-study-over-seven
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Katie Halper, Josh Zepps
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