http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/05/website-labeled-fake-news-threatens-to-sue-wapo-for-defamation/
Even the leftist The Hill found the WaPo's unprofessional behavior despicable - "And Patrick Maines criticized the story in The Hill, calling it 'perhaps the shoddiest piece of feature writing since Rolling Stone published its blatantly false story about a campus rape at the University of Virginia.'"

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence