While we are often raking the New York Post over the coals here at Get Real for the paper’s habit of ignoring facts inconvenient to the owner’s bias or (especially on the editorial page) just plain making things up, this Monday morning we salute you!
The whole “steroids/performance enhancers in sports story” is one we’ll get to soon — it’s rich in muddled thinking and misleading outrage. And don’t get us started about what’s happening to poor Michael “bong hit” Phelps for doing what the last three (at least!) Presidents have …

The always snarky and starkly conservative New York Post editorial page presented a doozy today — in part because the piece on the stimulus package was correct about a few things. How out of character!
While the Post predictably rolls out the Republican talking points — the package is a “spendfest” with “no defined goals or objectives” that hands out money to undeserving “folks who may or may not pay any income taxes” — it makes a very good point about a critical Obama campaign promise and a missed opportunity.
Briefly to …

You gotta hand it to the New York Post. Perhaps even more so than it’s conservative corporate cousin Fox News the Post will apparently do anything to find and promote only the facts that support it’s masters’ editorial positions. The Sunday front page is a classic example:

The Post finds the one national poll that actually gives John McCain the lead. Reporter Ginger Adams Otis’s story notes that “A Zogby tracking poll, taken Friday, shows McCain with a 1-point lead over Barack Obama, 48 to 47 percent.” After a number of …