Howard Kurtz reports on the controversy of the Washington Post's newest blogger:
The Washington Post Co.'s Web operation has touched off an online furor by hiring as a blogger a 24-year-old former Bush administration aide who co-founded a conservative site and recently referred to Coretta Scott King as a "communist."
Ben Domenech, an editor at the conservative Regnery Publishing, said he regrets the King reference, which he insists was tongue-in-cheek, and that the reaction to his new "Red America" blog is "a little meaner" than he expected.
Was there any controversy from the Post's readership when socialist leader Harold Meyerson got a regular column at the Post? Here's
Comrade Harold Meyerson advocating socialism to socialists:
You know,1998 was the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.I had not read it since college.I went back and read it and I was stunned.Obviously,the inherent revolutionary role of the proletariat that Marx predicted was something that the proletariat itself never quite warmed to,or even understood.But,his description of the economy was mind-boggling.He started talking about doctors and lawyers working for wages.He started talking about nations on penalty of extinction being forced to adopt the current capitalist mode of production.And I said,oh my God,he's not writing about 1848:he's writing about,in that case,1998.He's writing about 2005.
Michael Harrington managed to work Marx into lots of talks,so I'm going to take my stab at it,too.What Marx did is he looked at an acorn and described an oak,before anyone had ever seen an oak.We live in the age of the oak.The acorn has grown up.And our task as socialists,as well as our task as progressives,is not only to immerse ourselves in struggles but also to understand this world and to understand what folks have to do so they can live decent,fulfilling lives.
No enemies on the left for some Washington Post readers? Here's a question, what's the difference between Harold Meyerson advocating national health care and a typical Washington Post columnist? It appears Harold Meyerson is just more honest about his political philosophy then many columinists at the Washington Post.
