Up is Down, Black is White, Failure is Progress

If anyone wants to know why today's mainstream media is held in lower esteem than in any time in modern history, they need look no farther than The State editorial page. In a move reminiscent of Nero fiddling as Rome burns, Brad Warthen uses his plum position as Editorial page editor to habitually lie, distort, and misrepresent the facts and then present that as reasoned argument. As if readers don't have a choice or other means of getting to the straight facts! One day, Warthen's thoroughgoing dishonesty is going to rise up and bite him in the patoot.

In the meantime, we have to put with stuff like this. A short while back, state school superintendent and failed U.S. Senate candidate Inez Tenenbaum had to go begging to the U.S. government to get out of the strict achievement requirement for No Child Left Behind. Unable to help our state's students actually succeed, Ms. Tenenbaum lobbied to change the meaning of "success." Charming.

Unfortunately, she was successful. Now the federal government is an accomplice in the ritual neglect of the education of our children.

As if all of this isn't enough to make you cromit (simultaneously cry & vomit), now The State is opining that this is good news. Really.

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