I had hopes for the Philadelphia Inquirer when it was taken over by new owners a couple of years ago. Maybe, just maybe, it would stop with the incredibly transparent left wing bias that was so over the top that during the runup to the 2004 Presidential election, it put out 21 consecutive editorials (three straight weeks of editorials) as to why voters should vote for John Kerry.
The new ownership has helped somewhat; there are no some bona fide conservatives writing for the paper on its Op-Ed page. Unfortunaely, the Editorial page remains the same bastion of left-wing thought that it has always been. The latest polemic is about the decision on the part of the U.S. military to try six individuals with crimes related to the 9/11 attacks: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080212_Editorial__9_11_Sentences.html.
Personally, I would have been perfectly happy if these individuals had been lined up agains a wall and shot. That said, the decision afforded the Inquirer the opportunity to wrap all of its liberal biases up in one neat, little bundle. There are criticisms of the death penalty, waterboarding (memo to the Inquirer: A grand total of THREE people have been waterboarded. Hardly what I would call an epidemic), Guantanamo Bay, and several other banes of liberal existence.
I almost canceled my Inquirer subscription during the barrage of Kerry endorsements. It's now a consideration once again...............
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