We are the establishment; we are the Washington Post

Deborah Howell
Ombudsman, The Washington Post

Dear Mrs. Howell,

The Euro-loving America-haters of the left cheered like neocons at a cockfight when they exposed the Post's first official establishment blogger as a plagiarizing racist. But thanks to David Finkel's hit piece in Saturday's post, they aren't cheering anymore. Payback is a bitch.

It was a beautiful smear job. You picked a couple of bloggers from the Francosphere who make points about important national issues in an entertaining style and focused almost completely on the entertainment rather than the meat of their arguments. Although even the most novice readers of My Left Wing and The Rude Pundit understand that their rantings and crude language are merely wrapping for their insightful political commentary, the Post's piece refuses to even hint that there is more to their work than anger interspersed with profanity.

It's a tactic the Post avoids using on my personal heroes, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter. Their observations on the harmless fun that is glowstick rape, the need for concentration camps, and making domestic terrorism work for us are treated as valid political commentary. Certainly, the Post has never given these establishment conservatives the treatment it gave O'Connor and Le Pundit Rude.

That goes for the bloggers of the Patriotsphere as well. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs may complain about the media's "barrage of images of [Rachel] Corrie looking Caucasian;" Jonah Goldberg might issue prophecies of a black Armageddon; and Glen Reynolds may stoke the fires for a Minuteman kristallnacht but the Post prefers to ignore these examples of what seditious Americans might call hate speech. After all, their racially charged writings aren't as dangerous to society as The Rude Pundit's use of the word "cocksucker."

Instead you give them (and me) awards as a means of marketing your newspaper. That's fitting I guess. Like you, we conservative bloggers are part of the establishment. We both roll over every time Our Leader makes another grab for unchecked control. Heck, we do more than that, we trip over ourselves praising his bold resoluteness as he seizes more extra-constitutional power. We do it, because we fear that any dissent on our part will alienate us from the establishment's teat. That is our greatest fear, because then we will be treated like our adversaries on the left.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot