{"id":114,"date":"2006-03-21T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-03-21T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T23:31:32","slug":"washington-post-hearts-red-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Hearts Red America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post says that they hired Ben Domenech to write the new blog, Red America<\/a>, to provide balance to their editorial profile. Domenech is the co-founder of RedState.com<\/a> and was a writer for the National Review Online<\/a>. He also worked in Bush’s White House and for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). While at uber-conservative publisher, Regnery Publishing<\/a>, he worked with the likes of Hugh Hewitt<\/a> and Michelle Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the Post is shooting for balance, they must already have blogs by comparable liberals like, say, Al Franken<\/a>, Robert Scheer<\/a>, Michael Moore<\/a>, or David Brock<\/a>. Not surprisingly, that isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

The Post just plunged ahead with a right-wing bomb thrower who lives up to his reputation in his first installment: Pachyderms in the Mist<\/a>. This screed posits that the Red America of his imagination is actually in the majority, despite the fact that Bush is a miserably unpopular president:<\/p>\n

“Yet even in a climate where Republicans hold command of every branch of government, and advocate views shared by a majority of voters, the mainstream media continues to treat red state Americans as pachyderms in the mist.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Do the views to which he is referring include that two thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of Iraq and nearly half say Democrats would do better? Or that his personal approval ratings remain mired in the low 30’s? Or that 53% say they would prefer Democrats to handle the economy? Or that he has hit a new low of 28% approval for both healthcare and energy policy? Or that the word most often associated with him is “incompetent”?<\/p>\n

For this miscreant to complain that the media, which is dominated by right-wing pundits and corporate masters, is mistreating redstaters is as laughable as his assertion that his views are in the majority. And save a couple of guffaws for the Post’s assertion that they actually care about balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post says that they hired Ben Domenech to write the new blog, Red America, to provide balance to their editorial profile. Domenech is the co-founder of RedState.com and was a writer for the National Review Online. He also worked in Bush’s White House and for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). While at uber-conservative publisher, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7677,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7677","url_meta":{"origin":114,"position":0},"title":"Mitt Romney’s Shocking Confession: I Am Unqualified To Be President","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/30\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not often that a candidate for president will publicly declare that he doesn't consider himself to be qualified for the office he is seeking. 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