Front page and caused by FA when the Socialist win in Spain. Page 34 and caused by domestic policy when the socialists lose in Australia.
Proof of WaPo Bias
My fellow contributor John Rosenberg notes below that today's Washington Post buried the re-election victory of Australia's John Howard on page A-34. As Glenn Reynolds also remarked:
AFTER WHAT THE AGE CALLS JOHN HOWARD'S "THUMPING VICTORY" in an Australian election that was run in no small part as a referendum on the war, it's interesting to see how little play it's getting in U.S. media ... If Howard had lost, however, I suspect it would be getting a lot of attention, and advanced as evidence that the war was going badly, Bush can't keep allies, etc., etc.
That's not just idle speculation. See for yourself the Washington Post's front page story of March 15, 2004: "Spanish Socialists Oust Party of U.S. War Ally"
MADRID, March 14 -- Spaniards voted Sunday to remove the party of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar from power, apparently blaming his staunch support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq for the bombings that killed 200 people in Madrid on Thursday.
While opinion polls taken before the attacks had given Aznar's Popular Party a comfortable lead, voters overwhelmingly endorsed candidates from the opposition Socialist Party, whose leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has promised to immediately withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops from Iraq, redirect Spain's foreign policy away from the United States and restore good relations with such European allies as France and Germany that had opposed the Iraq war.
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