WaPo publishes an outrageous criticism of Biden's speech which then gets demolished in the comments.

[Towlie]

Opinion of President Biden's speech from columnist Marc A. Thiessen

You'll no doubt get a bit upset with the article but you'll feel much better when you read the comments.

[genxlib]

1. Columnist Marc Thiessen

I've seen enough

[Mme. Defarge]

7. Oui!

Consider the source.

[yonder]

16. I came across him a few years ago.

He's about as far-right a journalist as anybody who actually gets paid can be.

[Aristus]

2. I keep hearing about this all-powerful 'liberal media', and keep waiting for it to show up.

How long is that going to take?

[orthoclad]

10. Reagan sunk the "liberal" media

when he scuttled the Fairness Doctrine.

Now it's all oligarch media.

[onenote]

15. Fairness doctrine never applied to print media.

So its relevance to this thread seems misplaced.

[orthoclad]

19. True, to some extent

But that was the marker for the big tilt, along with Reagan's enabling of Murdoch.

[spanone]

3. Thiessen is a shit sandwich

[Raven123]

4. Stopped reading Thiessen after a couple edictorials

Source checked him and became clear to me that he takes quotes out of context with regularity.

[TheRealNorth]

5. Thiessen is a Mouthpiece for the AEI

Which means he is a paid political hack/whore by the 1%'s that supporting Trump.

So of course he is upset for being called out as a Fascist.

[Ocelot II]

6. Only to be expected of Thiessen. He's probably the worst of WaPo's GOP apologists,

so fuck him to pieces. He's the pig who squeals the loudest when you throw a rock into the pigpen, so you know you hit him.

[Cha]

8. Sounds like Thiessen's

Article fucking BACKFIRED

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Oferchissakes--Theissen is a part-time opinion writer who...

wrote an opinion like we would expect a RW tool to write. Why spend energy and pixels fighting him?

He's hardly the worst of tbe bad guys.

[gratuitous]

12. I'm not inclined to let the Post off quite so easily

They are not bound to provide a platform for every mendacious bitter has-been crank who scrawls 350 words on a used section of toilet paper. Besides, the title of the post is "WaPo publishes" not "WaPo authors."

[SheltieLover]

13. +1,000!

[Samrob]

14. Can they stand the subscription cancellation? nt

[Jim__]

17. The criticism was made prior to the speech.

President Biden will deliver a nationally televised prime-time address Thursday on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and arguing that the country’s democratic values will be at stake during the midterm elections.

[chia]

18. I never read Thiessen, but he needs refuting so I'm glad it's happening, and energetically!

[peggysue2]

20. Thiessen?

American Enterprise guy, former speech writer for Shrub and a Fox News contributor.

What a surprise!