tell us how you really feel

Jules Crittenden unloads on Columbia University’s Lee Bollinger for inviting the monkey to ape some words. Then he comes up with a brilliant idea:

I think the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or maybe the Simon Wiesenthal Center should invite Ahmadinejad to speak.  Pack the hall with Auschwitz survivors … Encourage them to show up in stripes and shaved heads. Entitle the forum, “This Is What We’re Talking About.”

Then Crittenden gets down to talking about his favorite newspaper:

Every morning I get down on my knees and thank Allah I don’t work at the New York Times, and don’t have to call terrorists and murderers “Mr.” Supposedly the pinnacle of my profession.  Never mind the shoddy reporting and shameful editorial positions. It’s hard to pinpoint any one thing, but all the ass-kissing kowtowing to convention has to really suck the brains and the soul right out of you. …

I am blessed to work at one of the last great American newspapers [the Boston Herald].  Every day, we fight for our very existence in shoddy digs.  We don’t have the resources to do the things we used to do. …  They call us hacks and sneer at our sensational headlines.  That’s OK.  Let them.  At least we’re honest.

Indeed.