WAPO'S OMBUDSMAN FESSES UP

You can get the background on this by starting out with Atrios and then working backwards from there but the essence of the complaint about the WaPo was that it seemed to portray the Abramoff scandal as bipartisan. On Sunday, Deborah Howell, the WaPo ombudsman, finally straightened things out:

My mistake set off a firestorm. I heard that I was lying, that Democrats never got a penny of Abramoff-tainted money, that I was trying to say it was a bipartisan scandal, as some Republicans claim. I didn't say that. It's not a bipartisan scandal; it's a Republican scandal, and that's why the Republicans are scurrying around trying to enact lobbying reforms.