WaPo Columnist Bashes Obama While Defending Rush Limbaugh - Kudos WaPo., let’s see more
When I saw the headline at washingtonpost.com “Closing the Whopper Gap” with columnist Ruth Marcus’s name next to it, I naturally assumed this had to be another hit piece on John McCain akin to what my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported last week.
Yet, upon closer examination, it turned out Marcus’s target of disaffection this time was — wait for it! — Barack Obama.
And, she even defended Rush Limbaugh.
I’m not kidding.
In fact, Marcus went after the junior senator from Illinois in such an aggressive fashion that she not only will likely be eviscerated by her typically adoring fans in the liberal blogosphere, but also could end up being named Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” next week (emphasis added throughout):
“…On immigration, Obama is running a Spanish-language ad that unfairly lumps McCain together with Rush Limbaugh — and quotes Limbaugh out of context. On health care, Obama misleadingly accuses McCain of wanting to impose a $3.6 trillion tax hike on employer-provided insurance.
Obama has been furthest out of line, however, on Social Security, stooping to the kind of scare tactics he once derided.
…The Obama campaign stretches the truth beyond recognition when it says that this would cut benefits in half. “