The Washington Post Is Unravelling Before Our Eyes

One of the smartest moves by all three statewide candidates, especially Bob McDonnell, was to not directly engage The Washington Post in their constantly biased reporting and scathing editorials.  Their latest attack on Ken Cuccinelli is an affront to journalism itself.

As it is, Republicans have long made the mistake of directly engaging The Post and making them an issue, in 2006 George Allen was running more agains The Post than against Jim Webb.  You cannot win a fight like that, and bullies like The Post are waiting for a reaction so they can keep the story going and going and going.  The difference between Maccacagate and Thesisgate is Allen went right after the Post and gave them an accuse to keep it news and made it seem more appropriate to keep reporting on it.  McDonnell pushed aside the thesis stuff early on and moved up, stuck to his script, and kept his cool using various good post quotes in his ads in Northern Virginia and using Post criticism of Deeds.  What's happened?  Independents are flocking to McDonnell, party because I think many think the press is being unfair by constantly bringing this thesis business up in every single article.  By staying silent, they have exposed the Posts bias without saying a word.

The way the Post has attacked specifically McDonnell and Cuccinelli, and they deft way they have handled themselves, has exposed this paper for what it is . . . and old school, Jacksonian newspaper that is really a political party organ.  Its never worse then in their coverage of Virginia politics because the DC elite that run and read the Post have never liked Virginia and have always wanted to to become more urbane.  You know, like Maryland.  Its a cultural as well as a political hatred the DC elites that run the paper hold for Virginia and they see McDonnell and Cuccinelli (and Bolling, and all Republicans not named Chichester or Potts), they hate conservative political views and consider those in the masses that hold them to be beneath them.  And they especially hate that they can't caricature McDonnell has a hillbilly yokel, a racist, or a right-wing exteremist.  I finally figured out why they hate Bob McDonnell so much when he is none of the classic caricature of Republicans in Virgina.  Its because people like Bob McDonnell- you know, well educated, smart, experienced in the military, business, the law, nad politics - is suppose to be one of them.  He's suppose to be a member of the elite and they realize that McDonnell can win over these independents in the Suburban Axis of NoVa-Richmond-Hampton because he's one of them and he understands them. 

Hell, on Nov. 4 I think I might even buy The Post just see the unraveling reach is completion.

Comments

[Let's Be Free]

Fellow called my home Friday night repeating lines from the Cuccinelli "bigot" editorial in the Post. I told the fellow, thanks for calling but I would rely more on what I had seen and heard of Cuccinelli over the years than what some employee of the Post wrote the day before. I wished the fellow well and said farewell.

[edthemanva/]

WASH POST

Jim Moran Calls GOP the "Taliban Ticket
"Always good copy, U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) likened the Republican ticket in Virginia this year to Afghanistan's radical Taliban movement in comments broadcast Sunday by WAMU radio.

At a get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax County, Moran said: "I mean, if the Republicans were running in Afghanistan, they'd be running on the Taliban ticket as far as I can see."