The Washington Post news pages’ campaign to “Macaca” Bob McDonnell, about which I posted yesterday, continues, but not on the paper’s front page. Instead, we get on the first page of the Metro section an article headlined, “McDonnell Tries to Salvage Women’s Votes,” which seems to assume that “women” are a single monolithic voting bloc, and on page B2 “Thesis Issue Builds, McDonnell Tries to Move On.” Largely missing from these stories is any information on what McDonnell’s views might produce in public policy.
My prediction: look for similar articles in tomorrow’s Metro section. Question for Post reporters and editors: compare the number of column inches you’ve run on McDonnell’s 1989 thesis with the number of column inches you ran on Barack Obama’s 1980s writings.
