Washington Post

A once great paper, now a liberal fake news rag that looks more like Bezos Blog (or the DNC's blog) than an objective Newspaper.

A once great paper, now a liberal fake news rag that looks more like Bezos Blog (or the DNC's blog) than an objective Newspaper. To be fair, WaPo was always walking in the Grey Lady's (NYT's) shadow, and Jeff Bezos acquisition didn't change much... now that the NYT in the mud, it's no surprise that WaPo is crawling in the sewer. Here is a partial list of falsehoods, embarrassments, and mistakes.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-04-05

Fake News

🗒️ Note:
FakeNews (Junk News or yellow journalism) is when legitimate stories or facts are suppressed, journalistic standards aren't adhered to, half truths are told, or a narrative spun to where the story becomes misleading or false. Think: manufactured crises, hoaxes, clickbait (sensational teasers/headlines with buried facts), bias or selective fact-checking, anonymous or paid sources, minor stories obscuring more significant news, delaying or ignoring newsworthy events, are all forms of FakeNews. Most retractions or corrections are evidence of shoddy standards and/or editorial bias creating FakeNews.

Whether you agree with the WaPo or not, if we start seeing a pattern of bias and errors, then they're not a fair and balanced media outlet. And if you don't see a pattern of bias and errors, then you're just uninformed on the topic. With WaPo there's not a lot of middle ground. Some examples include: WaPo • [64 items]

2009.01.15 Cheers for Obama - WaPo staff caught cheering an Obama (President Elect) visit back in 2009.
2014.08.06 VoterID Fraud - Justin Levitt did a "Study" that found only 31 convictions of voter fraud. It was crap, and shows that we need better tracking.
2015.11.26 Trump and Disabled Reporter - WaPo had to walk back a Fale FactCheck against Trump, he mocked them, they mislead that he mocked a disable reporter.
2016.05.02 Hillary and the Rapist - Hillary for laughing about getting a child rapist off when she was a defense lawyer.
2016.11.01 Greenville, Mississippi black church fire - Greenville, Mississippi church was vandlized by a Black Democrat trying to frame Trump Supporters.
2016.11.08 Trump Loses - Media claimed Trump could never win, repeatedly. He won.
2016.12.09 Sophisticated Russians Hack - WaPo claims sophisticated Russian hack that security experts laugh it off as amateur hour with no proof of Russians.
2016.12.22 Embezzling, Hookers, Divorce (oh my) - Snopes CEO/Founder (David Mikkelson) embezzled money to rent hookers.
2016.12.31 Russians hack our power grid - WaPo invented that the Russians were responsible for a Vermont PowerGrid attack. Debunked. Then they botched the rewrite.
2017.01.20 Scrubbed Climate Change and LGBT - The left media went nuts over a normal operating procedure to replace old WH website with new. Are they fools or frauds?
2017.02.15 Tucker Carlson roasts Erik Wemple - Video where Tucker calls out WaPo (Erik Wemple, their media critic), and caught them in glaring hypocrisy (and errors).
2017.05 James Comey Firing - An FBI report cited gross misconduct, so Trump fired James Comey. Democrats and their media claimed it was illegal.
2017.05.15 Russia-Leaks - WaPo invented a story that Trump leaked highly classified information to Russian ambassador.
2017.05.15 Russia-leak Cheers - WaPo lies that Trump leaked info to the Russians, and cheers that the lie broke a viewership record.
2017.05.17 Seth Rich - WaPo was silent on Seth Rich being the source of the WikiLeaks emails, or being murdered for it.
2017.05.25 NATO - Trump criticized European Countries for doding their responsibilities to NATO, they improved slightly after this.
2017.06.12 Omits Islam from Islamic attack - WaPo forgot to mention anything about Islam or Terrorism in rememberence of Orlando (Pulse) nightclub shooting.
2017.08.21 Hallmark of Dishonesty - "Hallmark Channel is booming", is used to bash Trump (as escapism). False. It started trending pre-Trump, and was down.
2017.11.16 WaPo confirmed a forged Signature. - WaPo's experts confirmed the validity of a signature, that the accuser admits had been forged. WaPo never retracts.
2017.11.22 WaPo Reporter collaborating with Democrats - WaPo reporter Janell Ross gave Strategy Briefing to secret Soros/DNC dark-money donor group conference.
2017.12.09 Crowd Tweet - WaPo Reporter tweets photo mocking Trump's Pensacola, FL rally size, by posting a photo from hours before Trump arrived.
2018.06.07 Suicide trends - WaPo ran an article showing Suicide Numbers trending up... and burried many important causes.
2018.06.21 Immigration Girl - Time never ran a cover article complaining about immigrant abuse during Obama, when this was happening more widely.
2018.07.02 Fake Immigration Story - WaPo counted only half of immigrants and concluded that Trump's policies are suppressing Muslims. Bad at math = racism?
2018.07.10 Clickhole - WaPo used a Clickhole article as the basis of a hit piece on Trump, only to discover that Clickhole is satire. Ooops.
2019.02.03 Superbowl Ad - WaPo ran a $5.2M ad during the worst Super Bowl, trying to prop up their brand. Didn't work.
2019.02.05 SOTU 2019 - The SOTU was a little late (thanks to Pelosi's shutdown). Trump took the high road, Nancy/Dems took the lower one.
2019.02.13 Golf Simulator - WaPo slams Trump for the Golf Simulator in the WH... installed by Obama, and Trump is paying for the upgrades himself.
2019.03.08 AOC Campaign Finance Scandal - AOC appears to have illegally diverted more than $1M of her campaign funds.
2019.03.20 FOIA Requests - Brent Scher compared FOIA requests on Obama versus Trump and got an obvious example of bias.
2019.03.22 Mueller Report - The Mueller Report showed that there was no hint at collusion by Trump or his team, it was a Hillary funded hoax.
2019.07.19 NYT tries to slam U.S. for space program - NYT think USSR is better than U.S. because we sent a man to the moon, they sent token woman, asian, and black to orbit.
2019.08.21 Buying Greenland, dissing Denmark - Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland. Denmark said, "it's not for sale". And Trump canceled a visit to Denmark.
2019.10.30 WaPo publishes ChiCom Propaganda - WaPo periodically published a CCP insert entitled “China Watch". Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.
2019.12.18 Merry Impeachmas - WaPo reporters blasted for ‘Merry Impeachmas’ photo where they exposed how biased (FakeNews) they are.
2020.08.10 Compost that book - WaPo advocates for composting books that offend it. Democracy dies in the darkness... after their book burning?
Abu Bakr al-Baghadai - The founder of ISIS died by blowing himself up as U.S. special forces were closing in.
Believe all women/Forced Hair Cutting - 6th Grade black school girl falsely accused three white classmates of forcibly cutting her hair making national news.
Covington High School Confrontation - NYT and MSM published an article claiming HS kids mobbed a Native American and an Indigenous People's march. All false.
Crowder YouTube Demonetization - Crybully uses Vox to pressure YouTube to Demonetize Steven Crowder, YouTube caves.
Global Massacres/Christchurch Shooting - Left wing eco-nationalist shot-up mosques because immigrants were over-populating the planet and causing Global Warming.
Hillary Clinton: Fired from Watergate (1974) - "fired" for corrupt and unethical behavior from the Staff of House Judiciary Committee during Watergate.
Hurricanes/Harvey - Democrats and their media continued their trend of politicizing every disaster or event.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement - This organization gets regular hate and disinformation from the far left, for protecting our nation from destruction.
Kushner Headline Sensationalism - Headline claims Jared Kushner was the target of FBI, then retracted in the 5th Paragraph. Propaganda.
Kyle Rittenhouse/Fake News - WaPo: The post pretends the Violent Perpetrators as victims, and Kyle being armed was the problem. If Kyle wasn't armed, he likely would have been beaten or killed by thugs with a history of criminal violence.
Libs of TikTok - A Journalists account was attacked (Doxxed) by the haters of Free Speech (WaPo/Taylor Lorenz)
MAVNI Military Recruits - AP headline, "US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits". And it was FakeNews.
Paige Patterson MeToo (2018) - Paige Patterson's #MeToo dubiously claims he slut-shamed/blamed and urged (Megan Lively) not to report a rape.
Roy Moore - A Republican nominee in Alabama that was hit by WaPo with multiple questionable allegations.
Russian Bot - There's a new attack by the far-left on anyone that is rational (conservative or libertarian) must be a Russian Bot.
Sharpiegate - Trump warned that people should evacuate for Hurricane Dorian, National Weather Service incorrectly said not to worry.
Some People - Ilhan Omar said, "Some people did something", to avoid admitting Islamic Terrorists took down the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Taylor Lorenz false allegations Depp v. Heard - Lorenz falsely claimed claimed that two YouTubers were contacted for comment prior to publication. They weren't.
Taylor Lorenz false allegations against Drudge Report - Lorenz falsely claimed Drudge Report was "relentlessly" harassing her. They weren't.
Tea Party - The railroading of the TeaParty is a great example of FakeNews. Media crumbling trust started in 2009.
Trump's sexual assaults - The Women claiming Trump sexually assaulted them is not very credible.
Twitter Bans people for exposing the Andy Ngo assailants - Andy Ngo assaulted/Hospitalize by Antifa. Those exposing who did it are getting Banned/De-verified from Twitter.
Twitter Suspends James O’Keefe - Twitter blocked Project Veritas's Jame O'Keefe, for reporting the truth Bernie Sanders campaign staffers.
WaPo mislabels Shapiro Alt-Right - WaPo published a couple articles that imply Ben Shapiro, is alt-right. A devout Jew is anti-semitic? Really?
WaPo on Guns - WaPo regularly lies about guns, shooters, gun control and NRA. Very infrequently, they get something right.
WaPo on Tara Reade - WaPo spun Tara Reade's sexual harassment claims against Joe Biden's as an example of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Will Happer Climate Denialist? - Happer was appointed by Trump, so the far left (NYT, WaPo, etc), attacked him for putting Science above leftist agendas.
YETI Coolers - In the wake of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, YETI Coolers cut off ties to the NRA Foundation, which caused backlash.

🖼️ Memes

Memes/Organizations/WaPo • [10 items]

WaPo: Sensitive artist, budding writer, and animal welfare activist, Adolf Hitler, dies by suicide.

Compare WaPo on Osama vs Abu Bakr *[1]

Compare WaPo on Osama vs Abu Bakr *[2]

Al Capone, noted entrepreneurial genius, and self-taught millionaire lives out his days in gated community.

WaPo article on the evils of Capitalism, hidden behind a paywall. (Is it still satire if it's true? (BabylonBee)

WaPo: Ted Cruz is Putin's stooge (if your only tool is a hammer and sickle, all your enemies look like collaborators).

WaPo: Mitch McConnell is a Russian stooge (if your only tool is a hammer and sickle, all your enemies look like collaborators).

WaPo:The entire Republican Party is becoming a Russian asset (if your only tool is a hammer and sickle, all your enemies look like collaborators).

WaPo: 18 reasons Trump is a Russian asset (if your only tool is a hammer and sickle, all your enemies look like collaborators).

WaPo: In the long run, wars make us safer and richer. Go Fuck Yourself, WaPo!!

🔗 More

Organizations
Organizations that I felt the need to comment on (more often on the negs than the positives). But there's good/bad in all.

Media Organizations
News, Newspapers, Websites, Radio, TV, and organizations that convey information the public.

Bias
Disproportionate weight for or against a person, place, idea or thing, usually ignoring evidence against.

TBD
List all the articles that have work to be done on them.

Amazon
I was neither advocate nor foe of Amazon, but they converted me to foe through censorship and new CEO's douchebaggery.

🔗 Links

FakeNews

Fake News Factory: Another disastrous week: http://www.dailywire.com/news/16646/fake-news-factory-another-disastrous-week-john-nolte
Glenn Greenwald taking WaPo to task: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/5/glenn_greenwald_mainstream_us_media_is
Anonymous Tips aren't news: http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/16/tips-for-reading-washington-post-stories-about-trump-based-on-anonymous-leaks/
Anonymous Tips aren't news2: http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/greenfield-anonymous-sources-washington-post-and-cnn-fake-news

Tags: Organizations Media Bias TBD Amazon