The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, but it reads like it’s owned by the Democratic National Committee.
Consider the bias by omission. On Aug. 9, Washington Examiner reporter Gabe Kaminsky found an uncomfortable story: “Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler.”
After Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 civilians, Imam Asad Zaman wrote he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.” The group Zaman leads, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, said in a statement it “reaffirms its unwavering support for the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation.”
A few days later, Kaminsky obtained exclusive video of Walz praising Zaman as a “master teacher.” He proclaimed, “I would like to first of all say thank you to imam. I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it.”
In response, the Harris campaign put out a statement that Walz does not “have a personal relationship” with Zaman, which is plainly false. When it comes to appearing with leaders who endorse Hitler and terrorism, Walz’s fervent words of praise were enough of a political indictment.
The Washington Post is a Democrat rag, so it can’t touch this. Search for Asad Zaman on their website and you will find three stories on a Minnesota mosque bombing in 2017. In one, Zaman was quoted as saying, “Hate is not okay. … We need an America where people are safe with their neighbors.”
“Hate is not okay,” said the man who celebrated the Hamas slaughter of Oct. 7.
By contrast, a search for “Trump” and white supremacist and antisemite “Nick Fuentes” gives you 404 stories. One story centers on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warning anyone meeting with antisemites is unlikely to ever be elected president.
Instead of covering the story of Walz’s gushing praise of a pro-Hamas and pro-Hitler imam, the Post on Aug. 14 carried a story headlined “As ‘Coach Walz,’ VP pick left an impression as a gung ho, hands-on leader.” If you found the Post story online, the headline was even more positive: “Tim Walz as football coach: A rambunctious, rah-rah joker.”
The subheadline came from a quote: “‘Coach Walz was like Coach Taylor,’ one player said, referencing the beloved fictional coach from the series ‘Friday Night Lights.’ ‘Only a bit kinder and nicer.'”
Reporter-activists Ben Strauss and Ben Terris found all the good news they could muster from the old days at Mankato West High School. “In interviews, more than 10 players and coaches who overlapped with Walz universally described him as a high-energy coach who specialized in rah-rah speeches and an avuncular and hands-on leader who didn’t mind a practical joke and helped transform a woebegone program into a state champion.”
Could the Post find anyone who didn’t like Tim Walz? Did they get someone to organize a Walz fan club for this story so he could be “universally described” as a terrific guy?
It’s reminiscent of 2012, when Washington Post editor David Maraniss churned out a 600-page book on Barack Obama that eviscerated Obama’s autobiography as filled with phony stories. But the Post avoided that. It only published an excerpt on the front page of a Sunday sports section about Obama’s love of basketball, and how it helped him “find his way toward blackness.”
The Washington Post isn’t trustworthy in informing the voters. It is trustworthy in underlining positive Democrat narratives and squashing the negative ones.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Tim Walz is a bonifide Democrat party lip-sticked pig in a poke;
“a pig in a poke noun phrase old-fashioned : something usually of poor quality that someone buys or accepts without knowing much about it.”
In other words he is socialist ideologically damaged goods like Obama, but this time we took the time to actually vet him before he could hurt us. He may needle the Republicans in this election, but his true Vetting may just end up with him getting the needle, like when angry hydrophobic mad dogs take that last trip to the vet for a date with the needle. He claims to be an American guard dog designed to protect you from incoming attacks, but when the time for true testing arrives along with the real threats, his true nature is revealed when just found AWOL, locked together in a helpless position of canine coitus interloctus with the first feral stray mongrel B*tch he could find to run with.
LOL. Very funny and very true.
What shocks me, is on one veteran focused forum, a LOT OF folk there, are Still of the mind to SUPPORT him/harris.. OVER Vance and trump.
Walz, like democrat Kamala Harris, And democrat former Presidents, Joe Biden ,Barack H. Obama expressed feelings for America When Barack H. Obama sais this, ” I believe in American exceptionalism , just as i suspect that the Brits believe
In British Exceoptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.”
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Walz is a lier, a very poor excuse for governor, and a demoncrap. Can’t imagine him being VP.
Yet he is great at dancing the Demomcrat two step,,,and particularly good doing the Walz of the Sugar Plum Fairy Nutcracker. He acts like he was gender altered by a nut cracking experience of his own making.
Just another Communist mind bent POS. He seems to love the Chinese way of life better than our Republic, maybe he should move there permanently.
OR north korea.