America Needs You, Wesley Pruden (Back at the Washington Times)

America Needs You, Wesley Pruden (Back at the Washington Times)

By Tom Blumer (Bio | Archive)
February 27, 2008 - 10:36 ET

Item: Less than six weeks after legendary editor Wesley Pruden's retirement, new Washington Times editor John Solomon has begun selling out to politically correct and objectively inaccurate language (additional HTs to NewsBusters' Tim Graham, and to John Haskins in an e-mail). The reason for the Times to even exist is slowly but surely being eliminated.

Accordingly, this parody, sung to the tune of Chicago's 1975 hit, "(America Needs You) Harry Truman" came to mind, in hopes of convincing Pruden to reconsider the virtues of returning, if only for a year:

America needs you, Wesley Pruden
Wesley could you please come home?
The new guy's really bad,
A PC flack gone mad.
So Wesley please come back and save the paper we all know and love.

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America's wondering,
What possessed you,
To leave at such a critical time.
John Solomon's a hack,
We really need you back,
'Cause DC doesn't need two WaPo's doing the news hand in glove.

We know you're still doing your weekly riff,
And we're glad that you could.
We also know that retirement,
Is usually very good.
But the paper you nurtured, whose circ you furthered,
Is not doing what it should,
You've gotta come back and take no pris'ners
When you're in charge you would.

America needs some Prudenizing,
It's time to set things straight again.
Just wait until '09,
Then retiring would be fine,
So Wesley please come back and save the paper we all know and love.
Wesley please come back and save the paper we all know and love.
Wesley!
Wesley please come back and save the paper we all know and love.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters

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I hadn't realized that Wes

February 27, 2008 - 12:36 ET by motherbelt

I hadn't realized that Wes Pruden retired.

When Tim Graham posted the "style" changes here the other day, I was wondering why the WashTimes was making changes.

Now I know.

So, no scare quotes (I call them make-believe quotes) for gay marriage, but they're OK for "amnesty."

and another one bites the dust

February 27, 2008 - 13:13 ET by wizardjr

On another thread here bunches of us dropped un-Scientific anti-American Magazine because it turned hard left and stopped being scientific or American. Now another great pub seems to be headed for the toilet. A shame really, as there aren't a whole lot of dead tree media that a conservative can read without having one's head explode.