Washington Times . . . "The News That Fits" . . .

[OneBlueSky]

seems the managing editor's wife has some rather extreme opinions about things . . . and they get printed in hubby's rag . . . which, btw, doesn't disclose their relationship . . .

The News That Fits
Long criticized for its brand of journalism, The Washington Times makes a habit of publishing the work of extremists — including the wife of the newspaper's managing editor

By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
Southern Poverty Law Center

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=10

Feb. 9, 2005 -- Marian Kester Coombs is a woman who believes America has become a "den of iniquity" thanks to "its efforts to accommodate minorities."

White men should "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women and avoid being out-bred by non-whites. Latinos are "rising to take this country away from those who made it," the "Euroamericans." Muslims are "human hyenas" who "smell blood" and are "closing in" on their "weakened prey," meaning "the white race." Blacks, Coombs sneers, are "saintly victims who can do no wrong." Black solidarity and non-white immigration are imposing "racial revolution and decomposition" in America.

Coombs describes herself as just "a freelance writer in Crofton, Maryland." But this is one writer who's a bit more well-positioned than she lets on.

Marian Kester Coombs is married to Francis Booth Coombs, managing editor of the hard-right newspaper The Washington Times. Fran Coombs has published at least 35 of his wife's news and opinion pieces for his paper, although his relationship to her is not acknowledged in her Times bylines.

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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=10

[RBHam]

1. Now THIS should be on CNN!

Talk about your "embedded" reporters...

[bling bling]

2. So, so, so, so typical.

My fundie Uncle once scoffed when I used the BBC news as a source of a story I was telling. I asked him, "ok, so what is a good source of news, then?" He said, "Washington Times."

Figures. He probably drools over articles by the likes of Coombs. He's your typical racist, selfish, greedy, un-compassionate, Christian-poser, Republican.

[LynnTheDem]

3. WaTimes has always been a rightwingnut garbage rag...but that steps

way over the line, even for them.

[seventythree]

5. always?

How about the late 80's -- did the Moonies own it, then? I was reading their expose on the child sex scandal which implicated government officials in the Reagan/Bush WH -- a key player was their former (?) editor and he was exposed. This has come to light because of all the Gannon stuff, which got me to wondering -- who owned them, then?

[RBHam]

6. always

the child sex scandal was most likely used by Moon to blackmail his way into the halls of power...

[RBHam]

7. The thread in question....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3085974

[seventythree]

8. thanks

for the link -- I had read about the stuff on a democrat petition site, but your link was very helpful. Now I know it was 1982 that the Moonies bought the Times.

[RBHam]

4. I wonder how she feels about Korean immigrants?

Hmmm????