SimpleDon
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I recently subscribed to the Washington Post web site, primarily because it is free for 6 months for six months and only ~$4 a month after that for Amazon prime members.
I don't have a handle on the political leaning of the paper's opinion columnists other than George Will, stogy conservative, Dana Milbank, a man after my own heart who has been described as "extravagantly contrarian" and Eugene Robinson a liberal.
The paper under Katharine Graham was establishment Republican with the notable exception of Watergate, which was just good journalism, following the story wherever it lead, a seemingly widely abandoned concept today. After Graham died the paper like so much of Washington at least partially turned to the "Washington Consensus," the idea shared by members of both parties that no intelligence existed beyond the beltway, there is no reason to look any further, that we need to impose austerity because the national debt is going to bankrupt the country if Social Security doesn't do it first. But since the Iraq war and the general ineptitude of the W.Bush administration leading to the 2008 recession and the election of Obama turned the paper into a pretty reliably liberal paper.
Anyway I was reading the opinion pieces yesterday when I saw this,
And this,
I can't remember any faster dissolution of regard for a national office candidate. Only Thomas Eagleton or Gary Hart come to mind.
I don't have a handle on the political leaning of the paper's opinion columnists other than George Will, stogy conservative, Dana Milbank, a man after my own heart who has been described as "extravagantly contrarian" and Eugene Robinson a liberal.
The paper under Katharine Graham was establishment Republican with the notable exception of Watergate, which was just good journalism, following the story wherever it lead, a seemingly widely abandoned concept today. After Graham died the paper like so much of Washington at least partially turned to the "Washington Consensus," the idea shared by members of both parties that no intelligence existed beyond the beltway, there is no reason to look any further, that we need to impose austerity because the national debt is going to bankrupt the country if Social Security doesn't do it first. But since the Iraq war and the general ineptitude of the W.Bush administration leading to the 2008 recession and the election of Obama turned the paper into a pretty reliably liberal paper.
Anyway I was reading the opinion pieces yesterday when I saw this,
And this,
I can't remember any faster dissolution of regard for a national office candidate. Only Thomas Eagleton or Gary Hart come to mind.
