WaPo Responds to Lefty Criticism by Giving Right-Wingnut Blogger a Column

Your Liberal Media at work: the fair and balanced WaPo brings you Red America [DCOW], in the interest of giving a voice to the tragically underrepresented Right-Wingnut perspective.

Jeff Goldstein [DCOW], who in his spare time fantasizes about molesting his dog, is, in the words of Mike Tyson, "estatic":

Run by RedState co-founder Ben Domenech, former Capitol Hill political journalist, contributing editor to National Review Online, and—after 9/11, the youngest political appointee of President George W. Bush, the blog promises to provide some ideological balance...

The good folks at the WaPo even took time out for a brainstorming session with Ben:

During the discussions about the launch of this new blog, the good folks at washingtonpost.com spent far too much time in sessions with markers and whiteboard, trying to settle on a name for the column. The suggestions were all over the map - but one suggestion provided a reminder of the sociopolitical divide in this country. "What about 'Red Dawn'?" said one helpful editor.

"Well, only if you want to make people think it was a gun blog," I said, to puzzled faces.

"Red Dawn? You must know it - the greatest pro-gun movie ever? I mean, they actually show the jackbooted communist thugs prying the guns from cold dead hands."

Any red-blooded American conservative, even those who hold a dim view of Patrick Swayze's acting "talent," knows a Red Dawn reference.

Sweet. Now, I would like to ask the good folks at WaPo.com if they're going to give Jane Hamsher a column too, you know in the interest of fairness and balance?

It looks like the WaPo Blog has re-instituted open comments, so I think I will pose the question. But I'll be careful to follow the rules: no cussin' and you have to use your real fake name.

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