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Before I began radio in 2008 I wrote a column for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The column was award-winning and routinely was one of the most highly-trafficked items on their website. It proved equally popular in print. However, it irked the editorial board whose left-leaning biases and lefty—and few—subscribers took offense when I would write about things like parenting as a Second Amendment supporter. I was frankly told by my former editor that I was “too blunt,” it was hinted that my politics were a problem, and my column was dropped from print. It made news locally and I discussed it on air. Shortly thereafter they decided to drop it from their website, too. Apparently one is not allowed to parent conservatively in the pages of the Post. There were many headlines and the Riverfront Times, the alterna-weekly, turned it into a cover story.

Fast forward to today and the news on George Will. The news was announced by far-left writer Tony Messenger whose work is virtually indistinguishable from that of an emo tween on Live Journal in the midst of a progressive political awakening. This isn’t the first time nor is it the last time that the Post has been or ever will be hostile towards conservative writers and look for ways to exclude their voices from its paper. They want a certain type of “conservative,” one who isn’t too bold, one who can present a diluted form of conservatism that accomplishes the task of making them feel diverse without actually having to confront diverse thought in their pages. Please don’t be surprised.