Red Flags over the WaPo "Fact Checker"

Quinn Hillyer:

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American conservatives see in this report a plethora of red flags. First is the prototypical example of the American liberals' continuing infatuation with the idea of the supposedly noble Soviets. Second is the reflexive anti-Americanism of the whole report: nothing makes American liberals go haywire as much as any assertion that their own country, the United States, is or ever was in any way a moral exemplar or even more well-motivated than not. (And nothing bothers American conservatives more than the liberals' refusal to credit the United States for good intentions.)

Third, conservatives see outrageously biased used of language in what is presented as a straight news report by a paper that claims to be an objective source: The right is never patriotic, but "jingoistic." Its logic isn't questionable or faulty, but "tortuous." And so on.

Indeed, the red flags in Dobbs' report continue. Suffice it to say that rare is the day when the Post or the New York Times or CBS News ever trashes a Democrat in such a manner. Conservatives see it as no mere happenstance that the very first two candidates attacked in this new Post feature are Republican candidates (the other target was conservative Senator Sam Brownback), and that the only Democratic candidate upbraided for even a mild corrective was the virtual non-entity Mike Gravel, the octogenarian former senator from Alaska - and even then, the corrective applied to Gravel was more humorous than serious.

The American mainstream media consistently fails to hide its utter contempt for conservatives' values and their political preferences. It is no wonder that conservatives actively despise that media in return.

So far, I have seen no retraction of this monstrosity in the Washington Post. Their fact checkers vacation from historical fact is beyond the pale. To equate the Soviet Unions role in World War II to that of the US is to miss the plot of the post war world where the Soviets imposed a tyranny on Eastern Europe that was the opposite of the Freedom enjoyed by those in the Europe liberated by the US. I give the "Fact Checker" an F in World War II history.