Comments on: ‘Politics At Its Worst’: Loose Lips Daily

By: Truth Hurts

Truth Hurts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:37:37 +0000

Q, the CP reference was to the WAPO editorial (written by the EDITORIAL BOARD) in today's edition. And the WAPO's nonsensical endorsement of "one city" Gray over Patterson in 2006 was also from the WAPO editorial board. What's changed is that Colby King no longer pens WAPO's endorsements in local elections. Now it's Joanne Armao (sp?), who undoubtedly wrote today's WAPO slam of Gray. My point is that WAPO ought to acknowledge that it played a major (dumb) role in getting Gray elected even AFTER it knew that he and Patterson were polar opposites regarding open government. WAPO's decline in local reporting is another matter that I've commented on elsewhere.

By: Q™

Q™ — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:51:52 +0000

Truth Hurts, you know WAPO follows the old adage "no permanent enemies, no permanent friends". Journalism and loyalty = oil and water. You also must remember that this is the EDITORIAL BOARD of WAPO...the shadow entity. The article WCP references doesn't have names attached to it. So, I'm not convinced it would be from any of the seasoned DC reporters, i.e., Bill Turque, Theola Labbe-DeBosé, Tim Craig, Nikita Stewart, etc.

By: Truth Hurts

Truth Hurts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:45:05 +0000

WAPO properly slammed the city council and Vince "one city" Gray for holding closed door budget meetings. WAPO also correctly noted that Gray cast the deciding vote in 2005 killing a bill to prohibit such closed door meetings. But WAPO failed to own up to its foolish ENDORSEMENT OF GRAY FOR CITY COUNCIL CHAIR(OVER KATHY PATTERSON, WHO SUPPORTED THE BILL) in 2006. WAPO's surprise endorsement of Gray likely was responsible for Gray winning the election. SO HOW DO YOU LIKE HIM NOW, WAPO?

By: Q™

Q™ — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:19:02 +0000

IMGoph, maybe there's a bus shelter at Hains Point or West Potomac Park, LOL! Also add "Washington Marriott Wardman Park" to the list too. Seems the site had the hotel misspelled also.

LL, are you saying that the DC Council anticipated the Fed Money so that's why they cut the MPDC budget?

BTW Jason, who's the WebMaster? The blogs are now numbered and other weird things are happening to the main page?

By: IMGoph

IMGoph — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:25:12 +0000

jason: i know you just copied the words straight from WJLA, but take a note what river they say you have to cross to get from one side of DC to the other. someone at channel 7 needs a geography lesson...

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