Get It Straight

Look, I don’t really care (although I find it profoundly boring) that Stephen Schneck wants to police what can be said about the pope and accuse people of anti-Catholic bigotry when the truth is that their paycheck relies on them being climate science denialists. His larger mistake is to be appalled that the Washington Post would publish George Will and to call the Post “one of America’s most respected newspapers.”

If the Washington Post is anything, it is a decent paper for covering the actual news in our nation’s capital, but what it publishes on its opinion page is an embarrassment for America and all thinking people.

If you want to criticize opinion pieces in the Post (and who doesn’t?) then at least point out that opinion pieces in the Post are about 80% conservative dreck, 10% mindless both-siderism, and 10% something that might, on a good day, edify anyone.

And, trust me. There’s no point in shaming the editorial board or accusing them of religious intolerance. They want to publish this shit.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.