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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.

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  • Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:48 PM

    Shame

    I had just read his post before coming here. For all the hysterical cries of a liberal media, there is no shortage of conservatives grabbing for every camera, microphone, web page they can find to spew their venom.

    Now I can remove the WaPo link from my favorites.

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