Atrios and Tom Spencer point out that an editor for the Washington Times is a neo-Confederate. Even worse he uses Edmund Burke as an explanation of his ideology. What a twit, Burke spoke out against discrimination and while he was skeptical utopian visions of equality, he strongly supported humane treatment of minorities.
And let me remind everyone again (though I’ve been told this speaks poorly of St. Louis), Gordon Baum has a radio show here. It is streaming radio. If you are like me it is kind of funny. Unless you think too much about Lott writing a column for these buffoons or that an editor at a major paper thinks Gordon Baum is worthy of respect.
Why is the Washington Times taken more seriously than the Chicago Tribune?
For a conservative counterweight to the NY Times it is dismissed. Why? Because it isn’t reliably conservative? Isn’t the complaint concerning the New York Times that it is too reliably liberal? I understand that the Trib doesn’t do the foreign reporting like the Time and its Washington reporting is less. However, for a natural counterweight to the Times, why isn’t it the model with professionalism and integrity?