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Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:00 AM

The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why?

One of the rarest media commodities -- someone who criticizes Democrats "from the Left" -- just got rarer still.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, June 18, 2009 01:04 PM

    Add another right winger

    Your list of extreme right wingers who write columns for the WAPO left out Michael Gerson, Bush's ex-chief speech writer.

    This letting Froomkin go is entirely in keeping with the increasing extreme right wing tilt of the newspaper these days, it's not a surprise at all in a way.

    Two of the leading Neconservatives, two, count em. And FOX New's Krauthammer, and Gerson, and Will, and on and on and on.

    What a shame, what's happened to that newspaper.

    —Bill E Pilgrim Read Bill E Pilgrim's other letters

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