Froomie's "Bowling with Hamsters"
Hero/patriot Dan Froomkin is under fire by his pathetic lapdog bosses at the Bushville Daily Handjob WaComPo:
[T]he paper’s new ombudsman, Deborah Howell, writes that the Post’s political reporters don’t like my column. She states that the column is "highly opinionated and liberal" and concludes that it should no longer bear the name "White House Briefing," because the title may lead some readers to think it is the work of the paper’s reporting staff. Such a belief, Post political editor John Harris told her, dilutes the credibility of the newspaper.
I don't think many readers would confuse Dan's work with that of the reporting staff - his pieces aren't at all spineless, adoring, enabling paeans to the misadministration. And John Harris is just another WH hack. Dilute the credibility? He's done that all by himself (one word, dude: 'woodward').
I do not advocate policy, liberal or otherwise. My agenda, such as it is, is accountability and transparency. I believe that the president of the United States, no matter what his party, should be subject to the most intense journalistic scrutiny imaginable. And he should be able to easily withstand that scrutiny. I was prepared to take the same approach with John Kerry, had he become president.
This column’s advocacy is in defense of the public’s right to know what its leader is doing and why. To that end, it calls attention to times when reasonable, important questions are ducked; when disingenuous talking points are substituted for honest explanations; and when the president won’t confront his critics -- or their criticisms -- head on.
The journalists who cover Washington and the White House should be holding the president accountable. When they do, I bear witness to their work. And the answer is for more of them to do so -- not for me to be dismissed as highly opinionated and liberal because I do.
This column’s advocacy is in defense of the public’s right to know what its leader is doing and why. To that end, it calls attention to times when reasonable, important questions are ducked; when disingenuous talking points are substituted for honest explanations; and when the president won’t confront his critics -- or their criticisms -- head on.
The journalists who cover Washington and the White House should be holding the president accountable. When they do, I bear witness to their work. And the answer is for more of them to do so -- not for me to be dismissed as highly opinionated and liberal because I do.
You said it.
"Coming from a paper whose ed board openly supported the prospective war in Iraq, refused to hire a baby sitter for the most credulous "reporter" in history, Bob Woodward, and still has yet to issue a mea culpa for its own breathlessly credulous reporting of the fabricated evidence of Iraqi WMDs, any criticism Froomkin takes from them should be displayed proudly as a badge of honor." - gmoney.
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