Washington Post remains deeply lost.
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified under oath in open session. She and Clapper demolished the Trump Administration’s claims about what they knew, when they knew it, and made it clear they were lying about what they’d done, and why.
The Trump administration did their usual thing: they made an outrageous claim, hoping the new claim would push the bad news down low enough that his followers wouldn’t see it.
And the Washington Post fell for it, yet again. Hook, line and sinker. The top headline was about Trump sending thousands of new troops to Afghanistan, which is only a press release, and they slipped the story about Yates’ testimony about Trump malfeasance down to just above the fold.
Just the same mistake they made, over and over and over, throughout the Trump campaign. For all their claims, they never learned to tell the noise from the real news.
This wasn’t just a test, it was important, and the Washington Post managed to fail both sides miserably.
The Post has agonized in print, over and over, about how they mishandled Trump during his campaign. They listed each mistake as they saw it.
And yet the Washington Post trips over their tongues, in just the same ways, every time it really matters.
Afterword:
I was just looking through the WaPo online site so I could quote the article, and you know? I can’t even find the story. It was their top headline in the print version, and now it’s so small, I can’t find it!
Maybe they got embarrassed? Lord knows they should be.
