Howell and the howling left

Ace makes the very good point today that the Washington Post deserves some kudos for daring to stick to the facts in the face of pressure to simply mouth Howard Deans talking points.

The left is howling about Deborah Howell’s remarks that Jack Abramoff “gave” money to both parties. The sinestrosphere continues pushing — strenuously– the disingenuous Howard Dean line that “no Abramoff money went to Democrats.”

CBS’s Public Eye has been following the story, too.

Howell even offered up documents obtained by the Post to back her up. Not good enough for those upset with Howell – and the paper.

Writes Ace: “…it’s only fair to also credit them when they get something 100% right– especially when doing so causes them grief from the people whose opinions they most care about (i.e., their fellow liberals’). It’s not easy to take on your core audience and ideological brethren and tell them, “Sorry, I know what you want me to say, but what you want me to say is a lie. You’re flat-out wrong, and possibly dishonest.”

This whole contretemps illustrates the left’s reliance upon slanted reportage and a carefully-controlled and censored flow of information. When they’re not getting that, they realize it’s a dire threat to their political prospects, and their “outrage” postively redlines before the engine explodes from too much nitrous oxide.

It also illustrates their post-modern-esque belief that the world is not as it is, but as they say it is. And by saying it’s otherwise than it is, they think they can change it. And when others won’t play ball, again, it’s a massive threat to them.

Even Katie Couric has dared to present the idea that maybe the “not a single Democrat ever took anything off Abramoff, no, uh-uh, nope, nosireee” line is a fake.

Speaking of fake – I think most polls are skewed (I’m sure even the hard-to-find Hillary’s got a 51% disapproval rating poll is not quite right) – so I am always happy to see ABP spell out precisely why the press is playing with us on important issues. Take a suspect poll, and you’ve got it in print. Now you can say it’s “true.” No matter how screwed up the polling data or the questions are.