Another Village Idiot Gets A Promotion

BooMan notes that AEI loudmouth and former CNN Capital Gang Sunday moderator James Glassman has been tapped to run the Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University.

If you want to know why supposedly liberal or objective Washington news outlets seem hopelessly tilted to the right, look no further than Glassman's résumé.

Executive editor of Washingtonian magazine (1979-81).
Publisher of The New Republic (1981-84).
President of The Atlantic Monthly as well as executive vice-president of U.S. News & World Report (1984-1986).
Part-owner and editor of Roll Call, later sold to The Economist (1987-1993).
Started television career as moderator of CNN's Capital Gang Sunday (1995-98).
Wrote a syndicated column in the Washington Post business section (1993-99, 2001-04).

Lately, he's been writing columns for Townhall. At least his new job will get him out of Washington where his influence has been nothing but detrimental to the national discourse.

And if you needed somebody in charge of the Department of Rehabilitating Bush's Legacy, there you go. Glassman's a Village Idiot through and through. And I don't buy that he'll be out of Washington's discourse, either. I see the position giving him more than a few guest columns at the WSJ.