Washington Times. A right wing rag?

[Sanddancer]

I generally read across the political spectrum. One paper I often view is the Wash. Times. In the early days i approached the paper from the point of view that it was probably a slightly right leaning serious newspaper presenting the news but with a right wing slant in it's opinions. Well, after reading the headline about Pres. Obama's UN speech i now see it as nothing more than a right wing rag.

The comments section looks like it's populated by folks who frequent the WND.

Obama garbles U.S. history in human trafficking speech


In making an impassioned plea for the international community to crack down on trafficking, Mr. Obama pointed out that his speech at the Clinton Global Initiative was taking place a few days after the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.

“With the advance of Union forces, it brought a new day — that all persons held as slaves would henceforth be forever free,” Mr. Obama said.

Actually, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 10 Southern states who were, at the time, mostly beyond the control of the federal government. And the document didn’t free an estimated 500,000 slaves in four slave-holding border states — Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware — that were loyal to the Union. Slavery was ended in those states by various state and federal actions later on.

So Obama spoke for 30+ minutes at the UN in front of world leaders and this bit of pedantry is what they want to talk about.

[link:http://|http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/25/obama-garbles-us-history-human-trafficking-speech/]

[mike_c]

1. the moonie times has always been a RW rag....

Same as it ever was.

[whathehell]

2. that's it's history....We called it the "Moonie Paper" as one of it's backers was Rev. Sun Yung Moon

who recently passed away. He was a cult leader, I believe, back in the Seventies.

[Sanddancer]

8. Cult? Spellcheck?

[jberryhill]

10. Cult - Unification Church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times

The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

[whathehell]

12. Spellcheck? As you may have learned by now, courtesy of the posts below,

When you don't understand something in a post,

it's best to simply ASK the poster before

going immediately on the offense.

[bongbong]

3. The times

For a long time it has been a source of wingnut insanity. Things are probably even crazier over there now that the Moon Man died.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Moonie Times?

Right Wing Rag is being almost too generous. More like crazy-out-of-their-fucking-mind-Hacks-that-write.

[ellisonz]

5. The Washington Post is the dramatically more respected paper in the federal borough. n/t

[JSK]

6. A right wing rag?

Is the pope catholic? Is the sky blue? Can fish swim? Can birds fly?

[gateley]

7. The print version of Fox News.

[Arkana]

9. Yes, the Moonie Times is a right-wing rag.

[Zoeisright]

11. It's a a piece of shit paper that should not be mentioned here

or anywhere in polite company.