Reply #9: They have several RW wackos

[Dogmudgeon]

Santorum's columns are awful. Not just in the sense of being wingnuttery, but they are usually factually wrong. If I was a conservative, I would be doing the Funky Facepalm whenever any of that frothy mix appeared in the op-ed pages.

Then we have ...

Jonathan Last, who argues that we need strong population growth to combat the Islamic world.

Kevin Ferris, barstool patriot who has recently discovered snark in the same way 14-year-old boys discover porn.

Frequent syndicated columns by Charles Krauthammer, whose multi-decade run of editorial diarrhea is unmatched in the anals of newspaper history.

They also have a weekly column by Michael Smerconish -- but get this -- Smerconish has been getting increasingly more liberal in the last two years. He was a strong Obama supporter. (Go figure!) He still wants Mumia to fry, but it's getting harder for him to work up a good rant about how America is becoming sissified.

The "Inky" is now owned by the Toll brothers, local real estate tycoons. Bruce Tierny, the de facto editor, tries to be even-handed, but the word has come down that the editorial policy is to veer to the right.

I wouldn't mind being paid $1750 to write a column every second week -- that's $45,500 each year for about ten hours of work a month. You could feed a lot of chickens with that -- or a couple of reporters.

--d!