Wash Post protects Bush liar, but hangs 30-year-old lawyer out to dry

[Cocoa]

the Post abetted a Rove smear against Blanco, using an anonymous White House source:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509060009

In this case, however, the Post reporter's reliance on an anonymous source defies reason. The statement made by the anonymous source was an assertion of fact that could have been easily refuted. Blanco's declaration was widely reported at the time it was made, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune reprinted an August 27 letter from Blanco to President Bush in which she noted that she had declared the state of emergency. That the Post allowed itself to be the conduit by which "a senior Bush official" delivered a political attack -- the accuracy of which could have been determined quickly and on the record -- is unconscionable.



But they print the name of their source on the Rove tax evasion story, even though that source had apparently been tricked into making a damaging statement against the most vindictive political thug in our history, which she didn't realize she was doing...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202397.html

Correction to This Article

A Sept. 3 article about whether presidential adviser Karl Rove had legal residency in Texas and a follow-up item Sept. 7 were mistaken in reporting that an attorney with the elections division of the Texas secretary of state's office was speaking specifically about Rove when she described state residency requirements. The attorney, Elizabeth Reyes, was not asked about Rove by name. The articles also should have included Reyes's statement that an individual's intent to return to Texas is a primary factor in qualifying for residency.
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Reyes was fired of course. :mad:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091000768.html

AUSTIN, Texas -- A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state.

Elizabeth Reyes, 30, said she was dismissed last week for violating the agency's media policy after she was quoted in a Sept. 3 story by The Washington Post about tax deductions on Rove's homes in Washington and Texas.

[applegrove]

1. You are who you hang with. WP are hypocrites.