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By Erick Posted in Liberals — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

I missed this one this morning until I saw Jonah Goldberg mention it.

Matt Sheffield, doing his best to turn Maureen Dowd into a suicide bomber outside his apartment, has some interesting facts on Henry A. Lowenstein, a "life long Republican" with a phenomenal track record of getting letters printed in the New York Times decrying evil Republicans.

How dare Matt Sheffield question Mr. Lowenstein or the Grey Lady's integrity! How dare he!

Henry A. Lowenstein, who has managed to get 20 different letters published in the New York Times since 2003, a remarkable feat when you consider that the Times (by its own admission) receives around 1,000 letters a day and prints only 15 on its letters page. That means the odds of the average liberal person (the paper freely admits it favors left-wing letter writers) getting his or her letter printed are about 1.5 percent.

It's worse when you think of the numbers on a yearly scale. In the past five years, the Times has received approximately 1.8 million letters. It's printed 20 of Lowenstein's.

We should all try this, just as a test. We should all write about how we are lifelong Republicans who hate Chimpy McBushhitler Halliburton and see how many of our letters get printed. If you don't want to bash Bush, bash Matt and Newsbusters for daring to question the Grey Lady's integrity! I bet they'll print that one.