Reply #127: There are a few guys that I like to read that work there.

[Major Hogwash]

If you go back and note who were the authors of all of those articles at the Washington Post in 2002 and 2003, you won't find many familiar names among those who make commentary at Politico dot com who wrote pro-war articles about WMD's in Iraq.

Take some time to see what Jim VandeHei wrote back in 2002 and 2003.
He wasn't writing pro-war articles for the Post.
He was more concerned with the Valerie Plame leak scandal during the summer of 2003.
Maybe that's why he left the Post, I'm not sure.
I think he has learned a lot about reporting since then, about how newspapers are more controlled than the sites like his on the internet.

I've been reading the Washington Post off and on ever since Bernstein and Woodward did their work 36 years ago when they broke the Watergate story wide open at the Washington Post.

Mike Allen also wrote for the Washington Post back in 2002 and 2003.
I took note of the fact that his name was also associated with many articles about the Valerie Plame incident.
He seemed to be more of a researcher than just an ordinary everyday reporter.

I'm not saying he's Clark Kent, but you never see him and Superman at the same time.

:)

It just seems to me that they wanted to have more flexibility over what they wrote than the Washington Post was willing to give them.
And they also may be trying to head off being labeled as "left-wing journalists" that just work at "the famously left-wing Washington Post", which is what the right-wingers have been saying for years about them.
Neocons and Republicans have been bashing anything they don't like that is printed by the Washington Post ever since 1972.

Of course, one source is never the end-all, be-all of getting out the truth.
The truth doesn't just fall out of the sky that way.
But, I appreciate your candor in forewarning us.

I like reading what those guys have to say, and I've seen both of them on so-called "liberal" tv shows giving interviews.

But, like the man says at the end of the ad, your mileage may vary.