Punked By The Post

[Uncle Joe]

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UNSTOPPABLE CLOWNING: Luckily, it’s now official: Al Gore, and the UN’s IPCC, have won the Nobel Peace Prize —Gore for the work on global warming which culminated with the Oscar winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. God bless the Norwegian committee, which said that Gore was “the single individual who has done most” to convince world governments and leaders that global climate change is for real.

And how perfect! Showing its unfailing sense of the parameters of modern multimillionaire comedy, the Washington Post has Gore’s film out on the front page this morning:

“Al Gore’s Film Has 9 Errors, British Judge Rules in Suit.” That’s the headline on page one, promoting this news report, filed from London by Mary Jordan. How utterly silly —how stupid —is this front-page promotion? Let’s put it this way: According to Nexis, even the kooky-con Washington Times has barely bothered with the trivial nonsense the Post promotes on its front page today. Yesterday, Greg Pierce gave it five short paragraphs in his daily “Inside Politics” column —and no, it wasn’t even his lead item. But when a possibly daft British judge settled a silly school board complaint, the Post rattled Jordan out of her bed, then pimped her story on page one. By the way, when you read Jordan’s report, you will perhaps note two things. She doesn’t make the slightest attempt to say of the judge is right or wrong about the nine “errors” he thinks he has found. More specifically, you’ll note that she hasn’t asked any actual scientist to comment on the things the judge said.

But so things have increasingly gone in this increasingly comic-book newspaper —a paper which has pretty much stopped pretending that it doesn’t exist to serve plutocratic class. In particular, the Post’s endless clowning about Gore reached a nice crescendo with today’s snide, front-page putdown. But let’s remember the other things this clownish paper did, just this year, when Gore went on tour for his latest best-seller:

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[Bitwit1234]

1. The Washington Post used to be one of the most reputable

newspapers in this country for decades. The one hundred per cent turn around to the republican talking points and bush ass kissing is sickening. I love it when they say newspapers circulation is falling off. It should. If they would publish news instead of what they do, people would by it. I don't understand, they say they are in business to make money, well they sure ain't cause republicans don't really buy many newspapers. They have lost the ones who used to.