What the Wa-Po Missed

http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/05/15/what_the_washington_post_missed

Last week, the Washington Post produced a front-page story intended to shock readers with the news of Mitt Romney’s leading fellow preppies in cutting the bleach-blond hair of a student at their school. The incident in question took place in 1965, some 47 years ago. The news that Mitt Romney did dumb things in high school was played as if it was most revealing. But, unconnected to anything else, it leaves the reader puzzled? Why this story? Why now?

Liberal commentators are quick to respond: It’s all part of the “narrative” (their favorite word, by the way). And the “narrative” is of an unfeeling, bullying, brash young man.

Okay. Let’s say it’s relevant (which it’s really not!). Here are some of the stories the Post did not think relevant (which really are!)

Item:  Bill Clinton as a graduate student at Oxford University spent a week in the home of Bedrich and Jirina Kopold in Prague. Early in 1970, Clinton was the guest of two members of the Czech Communist Party Central Committee. These were not even “liberal” reform-minded Czech backers of ousted leader Anton Dubcek. That father of the “Prague Spring” of 1968 had tried to bring about “Communism with a human face.” …

Item:  John Kerry was a leader of the anti-war faction in the U.S. He testified in 1971 before Sen. J. William Fulbright’s Foreign Relations Committee, wearing half of his uniform, and all of his medals. Kerry charged his fellow soldiers with war crimes and said they violated the Geneva Conventions. This was after he met with North Vietnamese Communist in 1970 in Paris. …

Item:  In April 1983, Columbia student Barack Obama attended the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City. His presence there is documented. He admits as much in Dreams from My Father. The scholars at the conference were all Marxists and the meeting was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Marx’s death.  …

For most of the time after World War II, such associations would have prevented Clinton, Kerry, and Obama from receiving a security clearance to see classified documents. The fact is now that national security safeguards are being compromised daily. These are not just WikiLeaks. The identification of SEAL TEAM 6, the disclosure by President Obama of the number of U.S. atomic weapons (5,113), and the most recent leaks about how we infiltrated Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are examples of a serious breakdown in safeguarding national security.

None of these background stories on Clinton, Kerry, or Obama was splashed across the front page of the Washington Post.

Hmmm….?!