WaPo Overlooks Boehner Speech, Highlights Students Asking the Speaker ‘Where’s the Compassion?’
When a liberal Democrat is Speaker of the House, everything they say is newsworthy, but when a conservative Republican is Speaker, the most newsworthy people are angry protesters of the Speaker. This came true on Sunday, when The Washington Post story on Speaker John Boehner's commencement address at Catholic University of America in D.C. by Katherine Shaver was all about the protesters, and Boehner's remarks didn't come up until paragraph nine. It began: Katy Jamison strode toward her graduation from Catholic University on Saturday wearing the requisite black robe and mortar board — plus a neon green message to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). “Where’s the compassion, Mr. Boehner?” said the 8-by-10-inch sign pinned to her chest. Surprise, surprise. The Washington Post went looking for the more-compassionate-than-thou Masters-in-Social-Work student that starts petitions against the CUA Starbucks not serving Fair Trade coffee on every day at all times . Nobody asks whether the money spent on overpriced coffee could be better spent on the poor. Katy Jamison is on a roll : “As social work students, we spend our days in the field working to empower our clients who have experienced injustice,” says social work student Katy Jamison. “How can we then purchase coffee on CUA's campus that perpetuates that same injustice through unfair wages, forced or child labor in coffee fields around the world?
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