I try to stay away from opinion columns in papers for the most part…usually because I’m such an asshole I disagree with everything anyone has an opinion about. But this caught my eye this morning…

Browner is an environmental radical – and a socialist (seriously)

By Examiner Editorial
- 1/8/09

No, it’s not the President-elect, at least not explicitly. Conservatives are often accused of scaremongering when they claim left-wing environmentalists are actually socialists hiding behind green disguises.  But with Carol Browner, incoming President Barack Obama’s freshly appointed Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change – the so-called White House “Climate Czar” -  there is no question about the socialism.

Carol Browner: Alleged Socialist

Barak Obama: Alleged browner

Wait…wait…wait. What? Am I reading this correctly or am I just being overly sensitive? Did they REALLY have to clarify that BROWNER didn’t refer to OBAMA? That…seems extremely tasteless and…racist. According to wikipedia, the paper is conservative. I guess that explains the overtly Christian slant I sense while reading the paper but it really doesn’t explain racism.

Looks like I’m never reading this newspaper again. I guess I should have known when the “Why Believe in God?” house-wife campaign against humanism was on the second page. Or maybe when I read that  scientists don’t actually believe in global warming so Obama should stop talking about putting caps on carbon emissions.

—Kal

UPDATE: 1:14pm I called the DC Examiner’s newsroom just to see what they had to say about the column. They are all out to lunch.