harpers.org - 6/19/2009
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Scott Horton For years, the best thing going at the Washington Post’s website has been Dan Froomkin’s “White House Watch” (originally called “White House Briefing.”) In fact, aside from the need to link to pieces from their print edition, there has been no other consistent reason to visit the ...
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Boycotting the Washington Post
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... And yet while all these assclowns continue their streak of racking up points in the Completely & Utterly WRONG column, they fire the talented and insightful Froomster. More from ...
Froomkin's Last WaPo Stand
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As Fred Hiatt retrenches ever deeper into his Village enclave, creating as Scott Horton says, "a Neocon remainder bin" on his opinion pages, Dan Froomkin bids farewell. And he demonstrates again why he's consistently been the main reason to visit WaPo's opinion page, and why it must have been so uncomfortable for Hiatt to keep him around. When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war. Lies about torture and surveillance. Lies about Valerie Plame. Vice President Dick Cheney's ...
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