The American Spectator

As Eric Pfeiffer writes in the latest issue of Doublethink, no one expects Rolling Stone to warm up to Bush or other conservatives. But, in a magazine that clearly hopes to be taken seriously, there should be some semblance of fairness. “If not for its Republican subscribers or out of respect for the intelligence of other readers,” Pfeiffer writes, “than simply for the sake of having better writing to publish, Rolling Stone should exit the screaming section of the far left bleachers…”

Nor is the magazine unique in trying to fob off intractable liberalism as moderate temporizing. On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, I met teenagers and aging hippies who derided Joe Lieberman as a “religious fundamentalist” and, worse, a “Republican.” Foaming-at-the-mouth “moderates” routinely denounce that right-wing ideologue George W. Bush, who, incidentally, signed onto the farm bill, steel tariffs, the Medicare bill, and No Child Left Behind.

“We are paralyzed here in the Senate,” Kennedy laments. In this partisan paralysis, nothing is getting done. No meaningful legislation is being advanced. Congress might as well pack it up and go home early. We’ve arrived at a new era of gridlock and right-wing creep.

Oh, if only it were true!