John Solomon Strikes Again

Okay, I know nobody cares about this topic, but something has seriously got to be done about John Solomon. That the guy is a right-wing political operative masquerading as a journalist is one thing. Fine. There are plenty of these folks writing for all of the major national publications. There are reporters with liberal political views that also misrepresent themselves as objective arbiters of the truth. It's "balance," right?

But this guy's work is just breathtakingly bad. And for the second time in about a month, the Washington Post has given an embarrassing non-story by Solomon front-page coverage. At some point, even Insight magazine types have to start presenting facts that substantiate their bizarre fantasy narratives.

Seriously. How many left-wing flacks are writing for the New York Times or Washington Post at the moment, and how many of them get high-profile space to publish simple DNC opposition research talking points? The Liberal Media charge, which might have had its day in court fifteen or twenty years ago, is simply not credible anymore.

UPDATE: Kevin Drum on Solomon's latest "story."

VERY LATE UPDATE: The New York Times does its best imitation of Fox News and John Solomon. There is a crisis in today's mainstream media, and it has been caused by reporters' and editors' willingess to print Republican opposition research as if it were actual journalism. The results are startling.