Post shows political bias

Here's a terrific letter from our friend Leo Rennert.

HOW THE POST UNDERMINES ITS OWN CREDIBILITY AND GIVES CONSERVATISM A GOOD NAME!

In the Post's Jan. 6 editions about Saudi hate messages piling up in U.S. mosques, your agenda journalism backfires beautifully.

Your reporter, John Mintz, identifies Freedom House, which he describes as a "CONSERVATIVE-LEANING human rights organization, as the source of a report documenting the widespread dissemination of Saudi hate literature and messages in American mosques. A few paragraphs later, Mintz tells Post readers that Freedom House was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Any half-way intelligent or observant reader would immediately ask him/herself: When the Post uses reports from Human Rights Watch, is it identified as a LIBERAL-LEANING human rights group? Of course not. Never. Why? Because left-leaning is politically correct and kosher; right-leaning is highly suspect and thus a pejorative adjective in the Post's lexicon.

But quite unintentionally I'm sure, Mintz compounds his own LEFT-LEANING agenda by recalling that Eleanor Roosevelt founded Freedom House, not realizing that what he's really telling readers is that the mantle of fighting religious and ethnic discrimination so courageously worn by Mrs. Roosevelt is now the province not of her LIBERAL progeny, but of CONSERVATIVES who alone are left to attack bigotry when they see it. Mrs. Roosevelt would weep.

So thanks, guys, for making all this clear.

LEO RENNERT, Bethesda, Maryland