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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 12:54 PM

    Res ipsa loquitur

    This decision is the flip side of the NYT wooing Bill Kristol, or the Philadelphia Inquirer hiring John Yoo as a columnist.

    I expect that Froomkin will land on his feet-- perhaps in a Better Place.

    I can think of a couple of Salon staffers who could be bumped to make room for him... but I guess the less said about that, the better.

    —Little Brother Read Little Brother's other letters

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