WaPo still can’t resist spinning toward the Left
Dan Balz at the Washington Post has a story on the front page of today’s edition titled, “Both Parties Sensing Tighter House Races.” This title comes from the fact that Republican chances in November aren’t seen to be as dire as the Dems and the MSM have been gleefully predicting for these past several months. Balz invokes Bush and “his Republican allies” – meaning Karl Rove, of course – in saying that they’ve managed to “change the mood” of the campaign.
I’ll make 1 minor point in passing: perhaps it’s less Bush and Rove and more that the American people are starting to get a more balanced view of things that’s changed the mood.
It’s the 2nd paragraph that just makes me shake my head. Here it is:
A combination of good luck — in the form of a sharp decline in gasoline prices — and dogged persistence by the president’s political team in trying to redefine the terms of the fall campaign has given a much-needed morale boost to beleaguered Republican candidates. The ebullience many Democrats exhibited throughout the summer has given way to more cautious assessments of how difficult the final six weeks may be.
Emphasis mine. So, when the gas prices were going up due to the media’s constant drumbeat that we were short on gas and – ohmyGodlockupyourdaughters – that the end was near, that was Bush’s fault. But when the market forces register that no such shortage exists and the resulting oversupply of oil brings the prices down, that’s just dumb luck. And how about that term, “redefine,” as in “redefine the terms of the fall campaign…?” Perhaps, as I mentioned above, it’s less a matter of “redefining” and more a matter of providing the proper definition that should have been applied in the first place?
The front page of a newspaper that claims to be an unbiased reporter of the news is no place for such editorializing as this. The Post has an entire section this morning that deals with peoples’ opinions. Balz should write his column there and leave the front page for reporting of the facts without his analysis.
