Erick Erickson at Redstate comments on the news that the Washington Post has hired former TPM reporter Greg Sargent:
I'm sure Greg Sargent is good at what he does, but I'm also sure the Washington Post would not even consider hiring someone directly from the right-of-center blogosphere.
Of course the Washington Post is connected to both Newsweek and Slate, so its biases are pretty well established and no doubt considers TPM to be right in line with the mainstream.
From the Washington Post's now defunct Red America blog, which began in March of 2006, in the about the author post:
Ben Domenech is a co-founder of RedState, the web's leading Republican community blog.
Just in case you don't remember how that ended:
In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday.
So, just to reiterate, the publication that Erickson said would never even consider hiring someone directly from the right-of-center blogosphere actually hired one of the original founders of the blog he currently writes for, more than two years ago.
Just to put the icing on the cake, that left-wing rag Newsweek profiled Mr. Erickson the week after the election. Go ahead and try to find any profiles of Josh Marshall, Greg Sargent, or articles specifically devoted to TPM's content or fawning at their political influence within Newsweek's archive. You won't find any.
Of course, all of this just proves how biased the liberal media is.
-- A. Serwer
