Salon dot com: Philly Inquirer quietly hires John Yoo as columnist

[Fumesucker]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2009/05/12/yoo/

According to Will Bunch, who writes for the Philadelphia Daily News, the Inquirer's sister paper, the Inquirer hired Yoo to pen a monthly column in late 2008, but even employees of both publications were unaware of the deal. And until this past Sunday, Yoo wasn't identified as an Inquirer columnist in the bio that accompanied his pieces.

Yoo's not the only controversial conservative writing for the Inky; former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is paid $1,750 for each of his biweekly columns. Santorum has his own issues, of course, but say this for him -- at least he's never suggested that the president might legally have the power to order that the child of a terror suspect have their testicles crushed in order to get information from that suspect.

[T Wolf]

1. The Inqy is now almost as bad as the Bulletin - a real reich-wing rag. I haven't read it since

it was bought by the uber-right cabal.

[FourScore]

2. All of the companies purchasing ad space with them should pull out.

If they don't, then boycott the products!