David Warren: A War Between Two World Views
Sarah Palin celebrated Bastille Day Tuesday with an op-ed against “cap and trade” in the Washington Post. Bless the editors of that newspaper for permitting it. Predictably, even Pavlovianly liberal, as they may be on almost any issue, there is a little streak of “wicked” mischief in them that makes their paper worth reading occasionally. Their op-ed policy is to run real conservatives from time to time — including Charles Krauthammer, currently the doyen of “no we can’t” opposition to the whole agenda of Barack Obama and the Nancy Pelosi Congress.
Whereas, other liberal newspapers — the New York Times comes to mind — feel comfortable only when fitting disguised liberals into their tiny “token conservative” copy holes. They instinctively limit the field to those Republicans who want to “engage with” the liberal agenda — to “sophisticated” pundits, such as David Brooks, who memorably retracted the views he had presented in one column, after his contacts at the White House called him to suggest he was too far out of line.
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