Denver Post columnist, David Harsanyi, a recent graduate from the
Milbank School of Journalism (MSJ) demonstrates in an article today,
What's permissible to ACLU?, his selection as Valedictorian. The article addresses the "supposed religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy". However the article soon digresses toward the red meat topics, Harsanyi learned at MSJ.
The transition from the topic of the AFA is performed to give an example of "some groups, like Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union, with the help of some Democrats in Congress, that denigrate and undercut religious freedom at every turn."
Last week, for instance, a mock impeachment hearing regarding President Bush (nothing wrong with fantasizing) run by the dependably outlandish Congressman John Conyers featured a bunch of Father Coughlin types like Virginia's Jim Moran.
The meeting was replete with malicious anti-Semitism.
Of course, no Pulitzer nominated article is complete if there are loose ends, which Harsanyi neatly ties with the obligatory attack on Senator Durbin:
Or, if the Senate cared, it could censure Illinois' Richard Durbin, who made a moral comparison between the incineration of millions of Jews and the playing of rap music in the jail cell of the alleged 20th Sept. 11 hijacker - a terrorist who resides in a virtual Club Med, as far as I'm concerned.
And let's not leave out the superb concluding argument of the article as it launches a final assault against the ACLU:
Problem is, if that banner had read, "I am a member of Team Bin Laden," the ACLU would have a lawyer shielding his First Amendment rights before you could say, "Who would Jesus bomb?"
And that's hypocrisy
The Denver Post, in promoting this article by their "columnist", David Harsanyi, must be following the tortured logic of The Washington Post's ombudsman, Michael Getler. Geller has written, in defense of Dana Milbank responding to concerns from readers' emails about Milbanks's article:
Milbank is one of the paper's most talented and observant reporters. On the other hand, for the past several months he has also been serving as a columnist, frequently writing observations that go beyond straight reporting in a column labeled "Washington Sketch" that appears in the news pages of the A-section. On Friday, for example, The Post covered an unofficial antiwar hearing on Capitol Hill only in a Milbank column. Several readers found this inappropriate.
Unfortunately, it has never been announced or explained to Post readers that reporter Milbank is also now columnist Milbank. The reference to "wing nuts," as in left-wing nuts and right-wing nuts, appeared in the June 8 column, not a "news story," as many e-mailers wrongly stated. This is also understandable because FAIR neglected to tell its subscribers that this was clearly marked as a "Washington Sketch" and not a news story.
And that's hypocrisy, a subject not covered at the Milbank School of Journalism.