The Washington Post (WaPo) Is Still Censoring Conservative Voices

 

The day after the 5 November 2024 Presidential Election I was reading the comments to a WaPo article about Trump’s victory and noticed a comment that hit home with me. It seems a commenter was complaining about one of his rather non-controversial comments being removed by the WaPo censors and because this often happens to me, I wrote the below “Comment I tried to post” supporting his contention that WaPo censors target conservative commenters to disproportionately censor conservative voices. When I hit the “Submit” button I found in the time it took me to write my comment the WaPo Censors had already deleted the comment I was replying to so I got this message: “This comment has been removed by the moderator.” Hence, I wrote this “Message I actually posted” and posted it but notice I predicted “Let’s see how long it takes for the WaPo Censors to remove my comment.” The WaPo Censors did not disappoint me because within 15 minutes they had removed my comment once again confirming the WaPo tagline: “Democracy Dies in Darkness and the WaPo Is Turning Out the Lights.”

If I were to post my original comment in the WaPo comments section I’m confident the WaPo Censors would just remove it again and probably suspend me from commenting so I’ll post it at my Blog here and anyone interested is seeing my 100% true comment that was so objectionable or “inaccurate” that it offended the delicate sensitivities of the WaPo Censors so they had to remove it can read it and judge it for themselves.

Message I actually posted:

I just tried to reply to a rather nebulous comment complaining about the WaPo censors deleting one of the commenter’s previous comments but when I tried to post the below comment I got a message: “This comment has been removed by the moderator.” Appears “Moderator” is the new WaPo euphemism for “Censor.” Let’s see how long it takes for the WaPo Censors to remove my comment.

Comment I tried to post

This happens to me all the time, especially when I post comments that include links to previous WaPo articles debunking all the misinformation and even outright lies contained in the article.

WaPo censors are quick to silence Conservative voices by deleting the comment and serving suspensions from commenting for posting 100% true and accurate comments that might not align with the false narrative the WaPo was trying to peddle to their majority Liberal-Left-Leaning readership.

In recent years I have been a frequent WaPo commenter gleefully pointing out and correcting their numerous errors but have noticed over time fewer and fewer comments from Conservatives have been showing up. I had assumed this lack of Conservative comments was due to fewer and fewer Conservative WaPo subscribers as the paper kept drifting further and further to the Left and losing readers but over time it has become apparent that the WaPo just censors, deletes and ultimately bans Conservative voices to avoid embarrassment from having their errors and biased coverage exposed. I know this because that is what has been happening to me.

At my Blog (https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com ) I have posted several of my 100% accurate comments that have been removed and even garnered suspensions to challenge anyone to point out what was so objectionable or inaccurate that it offended the delicate sensitivities of the WaPo Censors other than it confirms the WaPo has become nothing more than a Liberal-Left-Leaning Democrat propaganda rag.

Democrat VP Candidate Tim Walz & Dem Virginia -7 US House of Representatives Seat Candidate Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman Both Telling the Same Lies -- Technique in the Democrat Candidate Playbook or Coincidence?

Because Democrat VP candidate Tim Walz and Dem VA-7 US House of Representatives Seat Candidate Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman both used the exact same lie to misrepresent their Military records, I’m curious if the technique is taught in the Democrat Candidate Playbook or if both using the exact same lies was just a coincidence.

Despite being called out on it for years, MSG Walz continued to claim he was a “Retired Command Sergeant Major” (CSM/E-9) on his website and political campaign literature. Even MSG Walz's bio on the Harris-Walz campaign website described him as a "retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard” until they were forced to correct it by public ridicule. Although MSG Walz did serve as a CSM/E-9 for about 6 months, he did not qualify to retire in that rank so was demoted to Master Sergeant (MSG/E-8) to go on the retired rolls. The Harris-Walz website correction was artfully worded to be technically correct but to still give the false impression he retired as a CSM. The artful change was to say MSG Walz "served as a Command Sergeant Major."

MSG Walz also lied when he was caught referring to "weapons of war that I carried in war" despite him never having served in a combat zone let alone “in war.” When exposed for this “stolen valor” faux pas and his other lies like being present at the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, MSG Walz explained these “discrepancy”  by declaring "I'm a knucklehead at times."

Identical to MSG Walz’s misrepresentations, LTC Vindman served as a Colonel/O6 for five (5) months before being demoted to retire as a Lieutenant Colonel because he did not qualify to retire in the higher grade. That didn’t deter him from falsely referring to himself as: “Colonel Eugene Vindman, US Army Retired” and “Retired Army Colonel Vindman” on his campaign website and other campaign literature as well as in his stump speech. Like the Harris-Walz website correction, LTC Vindman’s was artfully worded to be technically correct but to still give the untruthful impression he is a retired Colonel. He now refers to himself as “a former Army Colonel” but he is still officially on the retired rolls as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Of course LTC Vindman and his surrogates have perpetuated the myth that his promotion was delayed so he was forced to retire by Trump before he had sufficient Time-in-Grade to retire as a Colonel but nothing could be further from the truth. He was considered and promoted to Colonel on time with no disruption to his career and he elected to retire on his own even though it mean being demoted. I suggest anyone that doubts this should read the official DA IG investigation of his treatment.

No one, not even Trump forced LTC Vindman to retire and in fact, he retired in 2022 when Biden was president. LTC Vindman did submit a waiver requesting to be allowed to retire in the grade of COL/06 but it was denied by the Biden administration. This was consistent with normal practice and precedent as there have only been two waivers of officer retiring in a higher grade without serving the required Time-in-Grade in the past 35 years and one was when President Obama allowed GENERAL Stanley McCrystal to retire as a 4 Star General.

Finally, like MSG Walz, LTC Vindman embellished his combat record. His campaign fund raising mailers contained the following statement: “In the Army, I used assault-style weapons on the battlefield. Now, I am running for Congress to ensure these weapons of war are not easier to get than a driver’s license.”

Although LTC Vindman served as an Infantry Officer for almost 10 years, he never had an Infantry command nor went into combat as an Infantryman but after becoming a JAG he did manage to spend 5 months in Iraq as a Captain Law of War advisor in the relatively safe Baghdad Green Zone. During his short stint in Iraq he was never in combat nor fired his weapon despite in his campaign literature he bragged about firing an assault weapon in combat. It should be noted that he received NO combat awards for his shortstay in Iraq and that almost all of his contemporaries had served at least three (3) combat tours/36 months between Iraq and Afghanistan.

To add insult to injury, LTC Vindman is running a campaign ad on TV accusing his VA-7 opponent Army National Guard Special Forces Major Derrick Anderson of lying when he calls him out for originally lying about his retired rank and about falsely claiming to have “used an assault-style weapons on the battlefield” when in fact it’s Vindman that is still lying. For the record, MAJ Anderson has had six (6) deployments to Southwest Asia including 15 months in Iraq and a tour in Afghanistan and he has been awarded a Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

For a detailed comparison of the two VA-7 US House candidates, Vindman and Anderson, see:

The Race for the Virginia 7th District US House of Representatives Seat Between Conservative Republican Candidate Anderson and Liberal Democrat Candidate Vindman – A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Two Candidates

https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-race-for-virginia-7th-district-us.html?m=1