Washington Free Beacon's take on the silliness that is American liberalism and its declining rag, the New York Times. An excerpt:
What makes the story so enjoyable, on the most superficial level, is its lurid combination of identity politics--Abramson was the first female editor of the Times, and Baquet is its first African-American editor--and liberal hypocrisy. Equal pay has been one of the rallying cries of the American left, a category that very much includes the New York Times, and the possibility of sexism at the paper is rich indeed. But I have to say I am less interested in equal wages, in comparable worth, and in what the New Yorker calls the "inescapably gendered aspect" of the Times' latest scandal than I am in how that scandal confirms one of my pet theories. The theory is this: The men and women who own and operate and produce every day the world's most important newspaper are basically children.
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