Liza Mundy

Washington Post staff writer Liza Mundy (author of a friendly book-length Michelle Obama biography) reviewed two books on women’s history for the Sunday Post, one by New York Times columnist Gail Collins and one by GOP political consultant (and CNN regular) Leslie Sanchez.

Mundy wanted to admit that media coverage of Sarah Palin was sexist, but apparently that could not be acknowledged without suggesting she resembled a comically neglectful mother from Dickens in allowing her daughter to get pregnant:

Sanchez also argues that Palin was unfairly judged on whether she could be vice president and pay sufficient attention to her children. This is a rich point to ponder. I agree that there was a double standard at work in the 2008 campaign. If a woman politician spent as much time away from her young children as Barack Obama spent away from his daughters when he was running for the Senate and later for the White House, she would be widely viewed as a neglectful mother.

In its ongoing effort to embarrass conservatives, Tuesday's Washington Post devoted a large front-page Liza Mundy Style section profile to Orly Taitz, one of the leaders of the "birther" crusade to prove President Obama was not born in America. Along with a Jacqueline Salmon profile in July on Randall Terry (shortly after he made waves for saying murdered abortionist George Tiller reaped what he sowed), the Post has betrayed an urge to suggest these are the faces that define opposition to President Obama.

But in 2004, when former Obama White House aide Van Jones signed a petition suggesting an investigation was needed to see if George Bush knew in advance about 9/11 and did nothing to stop it, the Post offered no profile of the architects of the petition at 911Truth.org, or their most prominent supporter, on-and-off leftist congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.

Melissa Radler of the New York Sun reported on it around the third anniversary of the devastating terror attacks on September 10, 2004:

The Sunday Outlook section of The Washington Post digged into the dregs of reality TV to plead the case for more national health care subsidies. Post Magazine reporter Liza Mundy authored a piece titled "Jon and Kate Plus Health Care: Would better insurance have saved this marriage?"

Mundy guessed that if the federal government subsidized in vitro fertilization (IVF), Kate might have had only one baby instead of sextuplets. "Possibly nothing could have saved this marriage, but one thing would have made it less fragile: a mandate for health insurance to cover in vitro fertilization."

It’s one thing for liberals to insist that it’s reasonable for taxpayers to shell out a few hundred dollars for broader immunizations and preventative health care measures. Now imagine being asked to pay for a $10,000 round of IVF. Mundy argued it would achieve the liberal goal of lowering inequality: