Sometimes I Wish I Had Been A Conservative
OK, that title isn't true for a second, but energetic young GOP go-getters sure can get a lot of perks. I'm referring, of course, to the New York Times article yesterday about the awesome summer intern experience at the conservative Heritage Foundation, but also to another comment I saw on the topic.
Quick digression: My favorite class in college was Politics and the Mass Media in Fall 2000. I, a Haverford student, took it over at Bryn Mawr with Paul Waldman, a Swarthmore alum then a fellow at UPenn's Annenberg School of Communications. (Indeed, that's the preppy-Philly-colleges Grand Slam you have there.) Sure, the class was fun, thought-provoking and instructive, but more I'm happy to see my professor's sterling rise through the world of actually useful political commentary. He's written a book on why the media gives Bush such an easy time, he's the senior editor at Media Matters, and he runs his own liberal political site The Gadflyer.
Now I mention all this to point you to Prof. Waldman's Gadflyer post on the NYT Heritage internship story. I can't excerpt his post (which is short) without losing its wit, so I'll just urge you to read the whole thing yourself.
All right, here's one line:
What horrific trauma could young Ms. Rogers have endured to turn her into the terrifying beast she is today?
Read it now.