So why did the Philadelphia Inquirer hire war criminal John Yoo as a columnist, despite serving an extremely liberal city?
"There was a conscious effort on our part to counter some of the criticism of The Inquirer as being a knee-jerk liberal publication," [Inquirer editorial page editor Harold] Jackson said. "We made a conscious effort to add some conservative voices to our mix."
They were being criticized for being too one-sided? Well, all the power to the conservatives who may have just delivered the killing blow to the financially troubled Inquirer.
But that's certainly odd behavior for a conservative movement that lives in mortal fear of the "fairness doctrine", so much so that they invent fanciful conspiracy theories as to its imminent return. If they want their one-sided radio (and I have no trouble with that), then they should be happy to tolerate one-sided newspapers.
Not that the Inquirer was even that one-sided. They run a weekly column by Rick Santorum. Let's see Rush Limbaugh run a weekly segment by Al Franken...