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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWashington post squeezes four anti Sanders stories out of one tax study
Over 7 hours.
Its not news that the Washington Posts 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 the Post 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 Bezosowned 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 APs Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
7:59pm Sanders Plans Arent Just Too Good to Be True; Theyre Also Fiscally Dangerous, by the Posts 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.
Indeed, the Washington Post loves to frame differing opinions about policy costs as deception, with an editorial back in January tabloidishly headlined Mr. Sanders Needs to Come Clean About the Funding for His Healthcare Plan (1/19/16). He cant just have different numbers in good faith; he must be hiding something.
http://fair.org/home/washington-post-squeezes-four-anti-sanders-stories-out-of-one-tax-study-over-seven-hours/
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Washington post squeezes four anti Sanders stories out of one tax study (Original Post)
insta8er
May 2016
OP
And under the bus tbe WaPo goes. The articles are not deception, yes, Sanders agenda
Thinkingabout
May 2016
#3
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. And probably 2 dozen OPs from within Camp Bansalot.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)2. The media treats democrats like shit.
Have for a long time.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. And under the bus tbe WaPo goes. The articles are not deception, yes, Sanders agenda
Is going to cost lots of money, the deception is not accepting the cost and ignoring this fact.