Normally you'd expect the PC antics of the Washington Post to be found in the A-section or Opinion page, but this time they're from sports columnist Mike Wise, denouncing the name "Redskins."

"I have been wanting to write about this issue since I got this job 18 months ago. The boss told me to hold out before I alienated most of the city."

Now you get your chance to alienate most of the city.

"I waited a year and observed, trying not be too judgmental, figuring I was just some knee-jerk newcomer who didn't get it. I still don't get it."

Wise wondered why so many liberals in the area were willing to look the other way when it came to the Redskins.

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams wrote an op-ed for the New York Times this morning. In a lot of respects, it praised former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, while certainly not flattering George W. Bush. In fact, the purpose of the piece appears to be to chastise president Bush for not going to Texas ahead of Rita by relaying what Johnson did forty years ago when Hurricane Betsy hit Louisiana:

“GIVEN President Bush's final decision not to head to Texas in advance of Hurricane Rita, it's worth noting that American presidents have long found both political riches and peril at the scene of a storm. A listen to the tapes of President Lyndon B. Johnson's White House telephone conversations of 40 years ago reveals that history does indeed repeat itself, even if presidential reactions and motivations have varied widely.”

Yet, the piece went on to show how LBJ didn’t want to go to Louisiana despite the efforts of its Senator, Russell Long. It wasn’t until Long properly conveyed a political benefit for the trip that LBJ acquiesced:

The Corner reports that Nina Totenberg, the legal reporter for National Public Radio, wants the next round of confirmation hearings scheduled around her vacation:

"Nearby, Nina Totenberg, the legal reporter for National Public Radio, cornered the chief of staff of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Totenberg was lobbying to schedule the next round of Supreme Court hearings around her vacation plans, which she had scheduled to coincide with her wedding anniversary."

Don't worry, Nina. Just write something in opposition to the nominee and drop it off with your editor before you leave.

For conservatives seeking refuge from the hurricane of liberalism that is the MSM, sports coverage is normally a safe redoubt. And if any sport would normally be considered a haven safe from liberalism, it is golf.

But danger lurks everywhere. And it took no more than the flimsy excuse of an important golf event being played in the Washington, DC suburbs for the MSM to air a love letter to Democratic icon JFK.

The piece was aired this morning at the beginning of the USA Network's coverage of the Presidents Cup, an event in which a US team goes up against a team of players from countries around the world outside Europe.

Rich Lerner, who normally works for the Golf Channel, narrated the segment. In fairness, Lerner is undoubtedly the Golf Channel's most talented essayist, and often brings perceptive and moving dimension to his reporting. But here, he was palpably incapable of preventing his true liberal colors from showing.

The Clintonoids at Media Matters are accusing Brent Bozell of spouting lies. The headline on their home page this week was "Conservative media spout economic falsehoods." The odd thing is: Bozell actually sort of sidestepped a statistical battle, and they pasted him anyway. In his interview with George Stephanopoulos, Clinton claimed, "We moved 100 times as many people out of poverty in eight years as had been moved out in the previous 12 years." Bozell said: "That’s too comical to correct – and for Stephanopoulos, too delicious to challenge."

I think Brent's use of "comical" means that Clinton was not intending to cite chapter and verse of the Census charts. He was doing the petulant policy equivalent of nanny-nanny-boo-boo, I was so much better than you. He didn't mean LITERALLY he was 100 times better, bringing charts and graphs like Ross Perot. But to the Media Matters crowd, everything Clinton says is automatically a statement of verifiable fact. Simon Maloy of MMFA, who perhaps should be known by his economic guru ("In Paul Krugman, We Should Trust") contended:

A week after NPR’s Nina Totenberg, on Inside Washington, urged imposition of a “Katrina tax,” on the same show this weekend she dismissed the idea of cancelling $24 billion of transportation bill earmarks as small change and suggested that “if you canceled the tax cuts, you'd get $225 billion." She rejected the contention that would hurt the economy and forwarded the standard liberal class warfare argument that “if people who are richer in this country don't pay more, we can't take it out of the hides of poor people, which is what the conservative group that is actually in Congress that's put out earmarks of what they think we ought to cut -- Medicaid, Medicare.”

Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, soon chimed in to point out how “there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes." He recalled how “Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes.”

Complete transcript of the remarks by Totenberg and Thomas follow. UPDATE: On another weekend TV talk show, the McLaughlin Group, Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift also looked to undoing tax reductions to pay for Katrina.