This week, The Washington Post presented Nikki Haley with an exceptionally ridiculous piece of opposition research—a hit piece that appears to have been plucked directly from the publication’s 2012 GOP presidential primary coverage.
In anticipation of the South Carolina primary on Saturday and in light of recent polling findings indicating a surprising level of performance by Haley in a hypothetical matchup with President Biden, the former governor reaffirmed her steadfast commitment to remain in office and not allow for the coronation of former President Trump.
Approximately at that time, the Washington Post published a 3,500-word news article detailing the former governor’s mid-1980s experience at her high school, which she deemed excessively homogeneous. Haley comes from an Indian family. Sikh was her upbringing. Shortly after emigrating from India to Canada in 1964, her parents relocated to South Carolina.
“The daughter of Indian immigrants was one of the only non-white students at her new high school,” the Post reports. “However, some classmates stated in interviews that they were not adequately instructed about South Carolina’s history of divisive racial issues, including Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan raids, and lynchings.”
An aspect that is noteworthy, and possibly just as significant as the counterproductive nature of Haley’s attendance at the school, which undermines its “too white” stance, is the scarcity of comparable coverage of Biden in the Washington Post.
During Biden’s senior year, Archmere Academy in Delaware admitted its inaugural black student. Subsequent to that, no further black students were admitted until the year of Biden’s graduation.
Archmere’s whiteness has yet to elicit a “some say” from the Post, which is peculiar. The Post’s continuous coverage of the president does include information that he was a football player at Archmere.
Not much more. Indeed, one must not seek beyond the post to discover anything substantial regarding Archmere’s endeavors towards integration or the fact that Biden’s high school experience comprised precisely one black student. There is nothing there; to delve into Biden’s high school years in a manner reminiscent of Haley, one must refer to the paid archives.
The headline is even more comical than the story’s framing and the absence of corresponding coverage for the opposing viewpoint: “Some claim Haley’s nearly all-white high school lacked lessons on racism.” One could argue that the word “some” in “some say” in that line is performing an exceptionally laborious task.
Above all, the Haley article evokes a sense of nostalgia for the period preceding Trump, when editors and journalists were compelled to fabricate Republican scandals. Historically, the divergence between what a Republican deemed “problematic” and what a Democrat considered “problematic” occurred infrequently, if ever.
For instance, the Washington Post published an article in 2012 that linked racist graffiti affixed to a boulder to Texas Governor Rick Perry. The Perry family had previously defaced a sizable, level stone that was close to the hunting camp’s entrance with a bigoted slur.
Prior to the Perrys purchasing the property, ranchers had been referring to the area as “slur land” for a considerable amount of time. As of the reporting by the Post, Perry and his family had completed the task of painting over the epithet.
However, the Post nonetheless published it, asserting that the since-covered word—which the Perry family had not painted—”adds a dimension to the developing biography of Perry, who entered the Republican presidential race in August and swiftly rose to the top tier of candidates.”
In 2012, The Washington Post also published an allegation leveled against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, which claimed that he and a group of friends forcibly cut a classmate’s long hair in high school on the suspicion that the classmate was a secret homosexual. It occurred in 1965.
Romney expressed regret despite not recalling the incident, despite his denial. The pupil who was grieving had died in 2004. Additionally, the Romney acquaintance, whom the Post initially quoted as being extremely troubled by the incident, later clarified that he only learned of the alleged haircut in 2012.
Additionally, one must consider the infamous “What about your gaffes?” incident, in which Phil Rucker of the Washington Post and Ashley Parker, a reporter for the New York Times at the time, were involved.
Romney was humiliatingly captured on video as the two individuals relentlessly badgered him at a memorial service for World War II in Poland, allegedly criticizing gaffes he had allegedly committed earlier on an international trip.
Additionally, the Post published not one, not two, but three articles in 2012 about a $990 garment that Ann, Mitt’s wife, wore. An opinion piece in The Washington Post even argued that the blouse would not “assist her husband in altering those perceptions, regardless of how many Laundromat photo ops are scheduled for the campaign.”
The Washington Post’s Reliable Source section praised First Lady Michelle Obama for “improving her performance” after she showed up at a heads-of-state event at Buckingham Palace wearing a dress that was reportedly worth about $6,800. Yes, without a doubt.
You were gravely mistaken if you believed that in a world without Trump, newspapers like the Post would return to a more accountable form of journalism that emphasized substance and exaggerated only authentic controversies or instances of personal or professional misconduct.
They would revert to fabricating scandals if not for Trump and his seemingly intentional offenses, his extensive legal entanglements, and his seemingly interminable list of genuine personal and professional shortcomings.
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