Washington Post Is Super Excited Over “Reporters” Harassing Politicians Who “Tried To Overturn An Election”

This would make the reporters partisan activists and mouthpieces of the Democratic Party. Also, the Washington Post, as they’re cheerleading this, seems unaware of what the Washington Post was pushing on the 2016 election even before Donald Trump won (the WP article is behind a big paywall, can’t even read it with Pocket, but, available in full here)

The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it
The journalists at WITF, an all-news public radio station in Harrisburg, Pa., made a perfectly reasonable decision a few months ago.

They decided they wouldn’t shrug off the damaging lies of election denialism.

They wouldn’t do what too many in Big Journalism have done in recent months: shove into the memory hole the undemocratic efforts by some Republican elected officials to delegitimize or overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Too many Sunday news shows repeatedly book the likes of Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson without reminding viewers how these members of Congress tried to undo the results of the election — and encouraged the Trumpian lies about election fraud that led to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol less than four months ago. A rare exception is CNN’s “State of the Union,” which hasn’t booked a single member of the so-called Sedition Caucus since January. (snip)

But Harrisburg’s WITF has gone a different route: They want you to remember.

Months before the election, the station’s reporters and editors were already deeply alarmed by what they saw unfolding. “We could see the disinformation really taking hold, this idea that the only way President Trump could lose is if the election were rigged,” Tim Lambert, the station’s news director, told me last week.

This story, which is in the Lifestyle (?) section of the Washington Post, is very long, but, I think you get the idea. This “reporters”, as funded by the taxpayers, won’t let people forget that some Republicans off the hook for daring to attempt to uphold the integrity of our voting system, having witnessed huge amounts of irregularities in states that were tossups, and some that shouldn’t have been tossups but easy Trump wins. There’s zero way Joe Biden gets 80 million plus votes, nor gets enough to win in states like Georgia. One has to wonder if these same “reporters” worked as hard to go after Democrats who attempted to overturn the 2016 election, blaming it on Russia Russia Russia? And wanting to impeach Trump before he even took office. And finally impeaching over really dumb stuff when we should have been focused on the Wuhan Flu. It took a long time, because the website’s search function is not very good, but, yeah, they covered Russia Russia Russia, essentially taking the side of “Trump needs to go”, rather than those who attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election.

These elected officials, WITF reminded its audience, either knowingly spread disinformation or flat-out lied in an effort to keep Trump in office.

“This was an unprecedented assault on the fabric of American democracy,” the statement said.

Yet, didn’t do the same as Democrats attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election. Remember Dems forcing the Mueller investigation, which turned out to be a big nothingburger?

“We’re out on a ledge here,” Jason Lambert (station’s news director) remembers thinking. Both he and Blanchard hoped other news organizations would join them. “But it’s been radio silence,” Lambert said.

To be sure, other news organizations, including The Washington Post, are covering the aftermath of the election fraud lies and the insurrection, sometimes in innovative ways, as NYU professor Jay Rosen recently wrote. ProPublica has established a “democracy beat,” and a nonprofit news organization, Votebeat, focuses on election integrity.

But I’d like to see more accountability. So would Princeton’s Kruse. “There’s a tendency in the political media to get caught up in the story of the day and not dwell on the things that need to be reckoned with,” he said.

Yes, let’s hold the Washington Post accountable for all their Russia Russia Russia stuff, in the news and opinion sections, which attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election, for 4 years. Heck, it started even before Trump took office, even before he won.  Did the WP or WITF complain about the riots during Trump’s 2017 inauguration? How about Rep Al Green saying that they would impeach Trump even before he won? How about the WP running an article on inauguration day about the impeachment of Trump starting? The Russian collusion meaning Trump didn’t win the election legitimately stuff was daily starting November 2016 in the Washington Post. And so many “news” outlets. Who holds them accountable? What of all the Democrat politicians, and some unhinged Never Trump Republicans?