Did Fred Hiatt Change the Mission and Just Not Tell Anyone?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 19th at 05:35 PM  | 

Conservatives have come to expect liberal organizations to hire purported “conservatives” to cover the conservative movement in a way that self-affirms liberal notions of conservative neanderthal-ism. But there is a problem in Jennifer Rubin covering conservatives at the Washington Post. According to the Post’s ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt hired Rubin “to be an opinion blogger who would appeal to conservatives and | Read More »

Quin Hillyer and Thermopylae

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 7th at 11:16 AM  | 

This column by Quin is made of awesome. Conservatives want Thermopylae. Congressional Republican leaders instead imitate the Confederate defense of Atlanta — the one that led a local editor to write that General Joseph E. Johnston’s reputation had “grown with every backward step.” Thermopylae, of course, was where the famed “300″ Spartans (and about 1,200 others) fought off many tens of thousands of Persians for | Read More »