Post omits "Death to America"

From Little Green Footballs...Post sanitizes Iran

2/6/2005: "Death to America" Event Canceled in Maryland

Regime Change Iran reports that the Bethesda Marriott Hotel has canceled plans to host an event paid for by the Iranian mullahs, titled: Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution and Death to America Day.

The Washington Post story reveals that the Marriott Corporation canceled the event because it is illegal to do business with Iran: Iranian Celebration Canceled. But the Post doesn’t mention the “Death to America” bit.

A celebration scheduled for this weekend at Montgomery County’s new hotel and conference center, marking the 26th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, was canceled after the hotel’s operator learned that it would violate federal law.

The Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, which opened in December, was to play host to 1,000 guests at a reception thrown by Ali Jazini, director of the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

John Wolf, a Marriott spokesman, said yesterday that the hotel canceled the event after realizing it is illegal to do business with Iran. He said Marriott officials will “be taking steps” to prevent similar bookings in the future.

PrestoPundit Punches Post

PrestoPundit was almost suckered by the Post....almost

I WAS almost suckered in by this duplicitious WaPost lead paragraph on medical care reform:
The budget President Bush unveils next week will propose spending an extra $140 billion over 10 years to expand health coverage to millions more Americans
But on closer reading this is just another WaPost lie (the dishonest WaPost reporter here is Ceci Connolly). If you look later in the story, it turns out that what is involved here are tax cuts -- i.e. the government isn't spending more of our tax money, quite the contrary -- instead people are being allowed to keep and make use of their own money:
About half of the $140 billion appears to represent Bush's plan to provide refundable tax credits for the purchase of health insurance.
This is a classic MSM lie, right out of the Columbia School of Journalism paybook. The whole tone and content of the article is anti-Bush, anti-reform, anti-market. Just what we've come to expect from the big lefty newspapers.

Post shows political bias

Here's a terrific letter from our friend Leo Rennert.

HOW THE POST UNDERMINES ITS OWN CREDIBILITY AND GIVES CONSERVATISM A GOOD NAME!

In the Post's Jan. 6 editions about Saudi hate messages piling up in U.S. mosques, your agenda journalism backfires beautifully.

Your reporter, John Mintz, identifies Freedom House, which he describes as a "CONSERVATIVE-LEANING human rights organization, as the source of a report documenting the widespread dissemination of Saudi hate literature and messages in American mosques. A few paragraphs later, Mintz tells Post readers that Freedom House was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Any half-way intelligent or observant reader would immediately ask him/herself: When the Post uses reports from Human Rights Watch, is it identified as a LIBERAL-LEANING human rights group? Of course not. Never. Why? Because left-leaning is politically correct and kosher; right-leaning is highly suspect and thus a pejorative adjective in the Post's lexicon.

But quite unintentionally I'm sure, Mintz compounds his own LEFT-LEANING agenda by recalling that Eleanor Roosevelt founded Freedom House, not realizing that what he's really telling readers is that the mantle of fighting religious and ethnic discrimination so courageously worn by Mrs. Roosevelt is now the province not of her LIBERAL progeny, but of CONSERVATIVES who alone are left to attack bigotry when they see it. Mrs. Roosevelt would weep.

So thanks, guys, for making all this clear.

LEO RENNERT, Bethesda, Maryland