Winky's Most Excellent Op Ed

The villagers at the Kaplan Daily are taking considerable heat for once again publishing a "Sarah Palin" op/ed, this time on the Copenhagen climate change meeting. For someone who can barely string together an adjective, noun and verb to write an analysis of what's at stake at the Copenhagen meeting... er... strains credulity, shall we say. Media Matters did the fact check that the Post editors are too lazy, partisan, stupid (or all three) to do. Moreover, why would the Post give this dimbulb a forum when there are worthy experts who could make a useful contribution but will never see the op/ed page of the Post?

This is how once-great newspapers die.

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Winky the Wordsmith

We're starting to see how Alaska's Winky You Betcha is planning her emergence in the "lower 48": by having someone ghost write a column in the increasingly right-leaning Washington Post. We won't link to the WaPo on principle, but take it from us that there's no way Winky wrote this column on the cap-and-trade energy issue herself. She can't even tell us what newspapers she reads. But her right-wing backers know they have to sell her as someone familiar with major national issues, even if they have to hire someone to write columns for her. But this is so transparent it's laughable.