If you’ll believe this stuff is edible, I’ve got a columnist I want you to read.
It would be tough to pick the most idiotic version of a Katherine Kersten column, but today’s certainly has to be in the running. KK’s unhappy that people are attacking her for extolling the religious types who hate gays.
You can read it for yourself, if you have a strong stomach. If you really have a strong stomach, you can read Kate Parry’s defense of her from yesterday.
Well, I’ve got news for KK, Parry, and Gyllenhall: what pisses people off about Kersten is not what she says. Hell, I read the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, and if I can take that, conservative speech must not be what sets me off. What rankles about Kersten is SHE’S INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST.
She makes assertions she can’t back up, answers criticism with ad hominem defenses, and rouses rabble just to instill fear in the morons who eat what she shovels. (BTW, here’s a good analysis of some of her shortcomings.)
Those who provide her with that shovel should be ashamed. Kate and Anders, the reason for your job is to provide truth, not so called “balance”. Having Kersten balance out people like Nick Coleman, who can actually think, is a continuing insult to your readers. Besides, I never realized the paper was supposed to be a teeter-totter.
Besides, if you got rid of her, think of those extra column inches you could devote to scintillating send ups of lutefisk–now that’s journalism.
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