"I'll give The Washington Post the benefit of the doubt"

Why though?  This is hardly the first time WaPo has promoted fake news stories with questionable sources and minimal vetting.  In the month before we invaded Iraq, they published no less than 140 articles promoting the war.  This isn't some glitch in the system, because these problems are systemic.  Large media organizations such as the Washington Post who uncritically promote official narratives from "serious policymakers" as Greg Mitchell puts it.  Seriously, after everything that has happened in the last several months, you're trying to hold the mainstream media up as some kind of paragon of virtue and journalistic integrity?  Give me a break.  This election has exposed them once again as lying frauds and political hacks.  And it's not like this is the first time either.  Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.  WAPO is the Pravda of the United States.  Pure political propaganda.  It is not a credible source of information, nor is the NYT.