Well, the cat’s really out of the bag now.  We’re getting to the heart of precisely why the liberal press - our entire mainstream press - really despise Sarah Palin.

It’s about her religion, silly.

This is the paper that refused to print the Mohammed cartoons that caused riots and bloodshed all around the world by inflamed, insulted Muslims.  This is the paper that explained its position thus:

Philip Kennicott [WaPo staff writer]: I think the Post has remained consistent to its values throughout this. I asked Len Downie, our executive editor, about why we haven’t run them [the Danish cartoons]. He sent me this message:

“It would violate our standards for taste to publish them. We keep many things out of the paper on those grounds, including gratuitous nudity, violence, obscenity and racial, ethnic and religious slurs.”

That seems right to me. It’s not paternalism, but the basic values of the institution. And one of those rules that, while it’s not always possible to live by it 100 percent, if you constantly aim for it, you’re better off.

Conclusion?  This isn’t rocket science, is it?

Obviously, the Washington Post realizes that they need not fear rioting, angry, torch-carrying Christians, who would storm their offices and burn them to the ground, hoping to kill as many newspaper people as possible in the rampage.

Obviously, the Washington Post has no genuine standards.

Obviously, the Washington Post fears reprisals from the “religion of peace,” Islam, but certainly not from the real warmongering Christians.

What’s to say now?

Not much, really.  Clearly, the Washington Post has made a decision here.  Protect Muslims at all cost.  And if there is a choice to be made about which religion deserves respect and protection in the U.S.A., it’s Islam.

Interestingly enough, their candidate, Barack Obama agrees with them 100%.

From the Audacity of Hope, p. 261:

“…that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Straight from the horse’s mouth.  Obama and the Washington Post choose to stand with Islamists, not Christians.

Anyone else outraged by this?  Even a little bit?

Then join the club of offended, indignant, outraged Christians