The Post has Journalistic Integrity?

In this article the Washington Post has stated it is reneging on a pledge to offer free advertising for an event organized by the Defense Department to memorialize the victims of 9/11.

The Post backed out of the agreement after critics said the event, scheduled to take place four years after the attacks that hit New York and Washington and resulted in the crash of a commercial airliner over western Pennsylvania, would have a pro-war slant and that support of the event by the newspaper would compromise the Post's journalistic integrity.

First of all, the Washington Post and integrity should never be used in the same sentence. What they mean by integrity is that if goes against their left wing "fever swamp" ideology.

There's more.

"The Post has a code of conduct that says employees should avoid a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest," said Rick Ehrmann, a Local representative for the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. "In this case The Post was sponsoring the Pentagon's Freedom Walk, which ties the attack on Sept. 11 to the Iraq war, and of course, The Post's reporters have proven ... that there is no connection between the two, that that link is false."

So the Post's conflict of interest guidelines don't have a problem with a union employee (I wonder who they supported in the last election) speaking for them. I believe that the September 11th Commission found that there was a link between Saddam and Al-Qaida, and there is certainly a link between Al-Qaida and September 11, 2001. Also, the Freedom Walk is just that. The far left fringe is pitching a fit about is that Clint Black is scheduled to sing at the end of the event. He happens to have a song that is titled I Raq and I Roll. Thus proof positive in their eyes that the pentagon is politicizing this event.

Get a life guys. It's just a song. I respectfully agree to disagree with people who are against this war. And I believe you can be against the war and still be a patriot. But according to the Washington Post you can't be a patriot and participate in the Freedom Walk and support our troops in their effort to liberate 25 million iraqi's. That is crossing the line of the hard left bias of the Washington Post.