Brady Chimes In On "Red America"

Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, said Domenech was hired because “we were completely unrepresented by a social conservative voice.” He said his goal “is to provide voices from as many perspectives as possible” and that Domenech is not intended to balance anyone in particular on his staff.

Fine enough, but then why isn’t there a blogger as liberal as Domenech is conservative? And wouldn’t Brady have been wise to have debuted “Red America” at the same time as, say, a “Blue America”? Or is all of this just falling into the “Crossfire trap” by attempting to reach intellectual parity with two incongruent points of view operating from the fringes?

Part of the problem with the hiring of Domenech is not that he’s conservative, but that he can occasionally...