WaPo’s biased coverage attempts to hide the truth, part 2,117,892*

(* Yes, the number in the title is sarcasm. I have no way of knowing just how low my estimate of the actual number is.)

In today’s Washington Post, there’s a column in the A Section called “Around the Nation” that gives little ¼-column briefs on various news items that don’t warrant stories of their own. The 1st such in today’s column would warrant it’s own coverage about how unbelievably slanted the Post’s coverage of the latest Senate actions are, assuming the Post would ever get serious about their journalism and do the topic justice. Titled, “GOP Blocks Measure On Utility Aid for Poor,” you can almost see the cackling Republican thugs in their Senate suits poking poor people with pitchforks just for entertainment. After introducing the topic (that Senate Republicans “blocked the Senate from considering” the bill to offer support for poor people to pay for heating and air-conditioning), they serve up this bit of Democratic Party Talking Points™:

Although a dozen Senate Republicans support the meaAlthough a dozen Senate Republicans support the measure, most voted with GOP leaders who would rather spend the time trumpeting their call to expand offshore oil drilling before Congress takes six weeks off for vacation and the presidential nominating conventions.

Emphasis mine. Way to flip the issue around, there, WaPo! And, for added measure, they purport to be mind-readers, telling you what the inner thoughts of the GOP Senators are with that “would rather spend the time trumpeting” crack. The fact of the matter is that it’s not the Senate GOP that’s blocking anything. It’s the Senate Democrats, particularly Harry Reid, who are doing the blocking. Senate Republicans want to have a vote on whether to life the Congressional ban on the offshore drilling that the Senate Democrats would prefer to ignore. Harry Reid is refusing to allow the issue to even come up, let alone come to a vote. The GOP Senators consider our energy situation to be one of the more important topics of the day and want that issue dealt with. It’s the Dems that are blocking things. If they’ll allow the debate and vote, you’ll see the Senate Republicans moving right along with the rest of the agenda. But to simply ignore it and allow the Dems to hide from the issue isn’t the GOP’s idea of good governance. It shouldn’t be ours, either.

But that’s no impediment to the Washington Post’s continued slanting of the news. Editorials of late in the Post had given me some hope that they were going to finally start giving full consideration to both sides of this debate, but their actions in this issue, which is supposed to be a news item, show me they’ve lost the ability to actually report the news in a clear and factual manner.

This is the kind of misdirection you expect out of teenagers trying to deceive their parents into giving them permission to do something they want to do but suspect the adults wouldn’t approve of. Disappointing, to say the least.