Sunday, December 23, 2012

Salon's Hack List

Salon's Alex Pareene posts his "Hack List" for 2012. Our hometown newspaper, the once-great Washington Post Kaplan Daily, is scored among the top ten by Pareene for, among other things, having the "worst op/ed page in the country", with the likes of the discredited hack, George "Quill" Will (who was recently seen supporting voter suppression!), polluting its pages:
When George Will isn’t being dishonest, he’s usually being wrong. He lies about climate change. He claims that anti-voter suppression efforts are actually about mandatory voting, something few liberals and no elected Democratic leaders support. George Will decided that college football is “liberal” because he doesn’t like football and he doesn’t like liberal things, so things he doesn’t like must be liberal. George Will said that if Obama won it would be because he was lucky enough to be black, and Americans didn’t want to look racist by voting against him. That was another entry in his long history of worrying that America was being too nice to black people. Will also predicted Romney would win 321 electoral votes and that Minnesota’s marriage amendment would swing the state Republican.
Check out the whole list (there are a few surprising entries and one glaring =cough=Fox "News"=cough= omission).

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