This morning, Michael Shear and Ceci Connolly at WaPo, with contributions from Anne Kornblut and Lori Montgomery, tried to get us to believe that the Administration was taken by surprise by progressives’ insistence on a viable PO being included in the Health Care Reform bill. This is an interpretation beyond naive, and also beyond imagination, since it assumes that this White House has no one monitoring the netroots and the blogosphere. Who do they think they’re writing about, George Bush? I think this WaPo piece communicates clearly the following messages.

Over the past weekend, Ceci Connolly of WaPo contributed a classic example of modern MSM journalistic writing, a piece that looked like it had been written by tying together a bunch of index cards with a minimum of prose, a “clop-clop style,” and a near absence of any semblance of logic or transition from one paragraph to another. Let’s take a look at some of Ceci’s minimalist and disjointed paragraphs from the viewpoint of fixing the President’s messaging by communicating and advocating “Medicare for All.”

Washington Post lied to their readers today about the Max Baucus approach to health care reform.