Emailed the author of this WashPost item:
"Dear Mr. Meyerson,
I enjoy reading your writing for it's style and syntax. That said, it's hard to believe that your worldview could be so myopic, and, amazingy enough, that you would still be profferred a job as a writer.
You whine about the tone taken by the Republicans, in general, and Bush in specific, and how this is suppressive in nature towards minorities. You add a cunning touch, albeit smarmy and condescending, about Jefferson Davis (apparently hoping that some will subliminally project the word "racist" on the president's forehead every time we see him on television). You flippantly utilize the word "assiduously" with regard to the president's "[seeking to]...undermine the basic arrangements of American policy..."
Is it possible to be so blatantly partisan as to completely ignore any and all evidence to the contrary? In your case, apparently, it is possible.
Forty years ago the Daley machine in Chicago, and LBJ in Texas, amongst others, were renowned for their ability to get out the vote (GOTV pre-internet) particularly amongst those whose home addresses coincided with the local cemeteries. ACORN has admitted to massive irregularities amongst it's registration processes. Crack has been offered as monetary recompense for getting out the vote (in a primarily Democratic area). Republicans offices (to a MUCH greater degree than Democratic offices) have been robbed, vandalized, invaded, and disrupted.
As for your petulant "Who does Trakas think they are? Have tens of thousands of African Americans been sneaking over the state lines from Pittsburgh...", well, no. The Democrats don't need that kind of state crossing from Pittsburgh. They're only interested in the ones who can vote in Florida and New York at the same time (again Dems have much higher rates of two state voting than Repubs).
But, I digress. My original statement was a medical diatribe about pathologic myopia. The symptoms of this disease, in it's late stages, are as follows: "...result in a progressive and severe loss of vision."
I would send you a pair of glasses but I don't know your prescription strength.
Meyerson is an extremely bizarre leftist writer who more often than not has no ideas worth taking seriously. He simply copies the DNC's latest talking points without the slightest inkling of attention to facts.
His background tells it all. Aside from his column that the Post prints (he doesn't really represent the Post's editorial board opinion), he has been an editor and writer at the American Prospect and the L.A. Weekly. No wonder he's such a leftist shill.