Tag Archives: WaPo

Washington Post: NOM Has Lost

“Like a candidate losing every primary, you wonder how long the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) can hold on. It’s now in the red to the tune of more than a million dollars. What exactly does NOM do as voters in state after state decide to expand marriage to gay couples? There aren’t enough states for a constitutional amendment. It’s …

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WaPo Gives Obama Four Pinnochios

The Washington Post has given President Obama its four Pinnochios rating for his claim that you can keep your existing insurance under Obamacare.  From their Fact Checker blog: The administration is defending this pledge with a rather slim reed — that there is nothing in the law that makes insurance companies force people out of plans they were enrolled in …

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Newspaper Correction Of The Day

Here’s the guy that the WaPo called “thickset.”

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Washington Post Vs Teabagger

(Via AmericaBlog)

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the Washington Post: Mr. Obama, speaking on the eve of his cancellation of a summit meeting in Moscow, said he felt Mr. Putin would surely understand “that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn’t tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently.” The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should understand that as …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Washington Post editorial board: In the politically charged election year of 1996 — the same year the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed both houses of Congress with veto-proof margins — the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) reached the Senate floor and was defeated by a single vote. Reading the tea leaves then, it might have seemed that employment …

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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Buys Washington Post For $250M In Cash

From the Washington Post itself: The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations. Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Washington Post editorial board: Last week Loudoun’s all-Republican board, correctly concluding that it must police its own members, followed suit by formally censuring Mr. Delgaudio. The board stripped him of office staff, barred him from serving on any local boards or commissions and seized control of his annual office budget of about $120,000. On his own authority, Mr. …

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The Big Data Conversation

Some unfortunate ad placement, eh? Source.

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MAP: Racially Tolerant Nations

The Washington Post created the above map in response to a survey examined by Swedish economists. According to the survey responses, the least racially tolerant places are India, Jordan, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh. Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other …

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Senate Marriage Support Trend

Via Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog.

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Fred Karger Launches WaPo Ads

NOM’s arch-enemy and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger is running the above ad on the Washington Post’s site for the next five days.  I ran into Fred in the lobby of Broadway Backwards on Monday night and he mentioned that he’s just moved to Manhattan.  Hit the link if you’d like to kick in for his web campaign.

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Perkins: WaPo’s Marriage Poll Is A Lie

“The Washington Post thought it knew where the American people stood on marriage. Just two days ago, news outlets were plastering its poll results of ‘record’ backing for same-sex ‘marriage’ on their websites–only to see the support vanish as quickly as it appeared. Today, the Reuters Corporation released the results of an even bigger poll than the Post’s and found …

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WaPo To Add Paywall

This summer the Washington Post will erect a paywall similar that used by the New York Times, with a limit of 20 free articles per month. The step, while modest compared with moves by some other publications, marks a major change for The Post, which has shied away from what is known as a paywall for fear of driving away …

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Marriage Support Hits Record High

ABC News reports: Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on the subject across the past decade. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed. That number has grown sharply in ABC News/Washington Post polls, from …

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Headline Of The Day

Apparently WaPo believed the Onion-copycat Daily Currant, whose stories have also prompted more than a few JMG readers to send me links. Details.

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Washington Post: In striking down both laws, the Supreme Court could adopt the logic of the various appeals courts, or it could find other legally acceptable ways to avoid a sweeping ruling just yet. Same-sex couples could then marry in California, and married same-sex couples across the country could obtain federal benefits — but other states would have …

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Headline Of The Day

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Sally Quinn: Atheism Is Un-American

“This is a religious country. Part of claiming your citizenship is claiming a belief in God, even if you are not Christian. We’ve got the Creator in our Declaration of Independence. We’ve got ‘In God We Trust’ on our coins. We’ve got ‘one nation under God’ in our Pledge of Allegiance. And we say prayers in the Senate and the …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the Washington Post: Over the 13 years that Mr. Delgaudio has represented the Sterling district, near Dulles International Airport in eastern Loudoun, that agenda has included aggressive and frequently acerbic homophobic positions. (Airport pat-downs by Transportation Security Administration personnel, he says, provide a dream job for “militant homosexuals.”) His bombast has extended to other pet …

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