Yesterday the Washington Post was happy to trot out a 45 year old story going back to GOP Candidate Mitt Romney's high school years. First they want their readers to understand that it wasn't just any high school, but rather an expensive boarding school. The story is that Romney objected to a classmate's long hair and helped a bunch of other boys cut it. In case that's not enough, the story infers that Romney didn't like the boy because supposedly Romney thought he was a homosexual.

If you went to high school 40 to 50 years ago you probably understand already that high school kids didn't think about others being homosexuals in those days. These were the years of Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver. Couples didn't even sleep in the same bed on TV. With that, you begin to smell a rat in the whole story.

A careful read of the story, noted by the Daily Caller shows further cracks in the story as the Post quotes a "friend" of Romney who did not witness the event and only learned about it third hand in the last year say the incident had bothered him for a long time.

"I always enjoyed his pranks, said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney's who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident."

How can one be long bothered about something they never heard of before last year?

Barack Hussein Obama openly admits in his book, Dreams of My Father, that he smoked pot and took drugs during high school. I understand some of this behavior continued into Obama's college years. Yet the Washington Post has failed to run a story about Obama's drug use. They also have failed to run any story of his young adult associations with terrorist Bill Ayers who Obama tries to pass off as just some guy that lived on his block.

You have to ask how a "newspaper" can claim that name and call its writers "journalists" when they are willing to print untruths, half truths and innuendos but only if the person they write about is a Republican or conservative.

UPDATE:
Washington Post silently "corrects" part of story found to be lie.