Looks like the Pulitzer Prize folks are feeling the need to pander to the right. I'm sure someone must have beaten them up. But seriously, giving the prize to a guy who thinks the Japanese nuclear disaster isn't a big deal?
One of his columns, from this past January 19, not among the entries (it was probably past the deadlline), continued the drumbeat. Its headline: "ObamaCare Howlers." Six days before that another one: "New Jersey Sits Out ObamaCare Fight. "
But young Rago is an expert on many subjects. Check out his March 21 punditry: "No Nuke Disaster.... the catastrophe that wasn't in Fukushima."
Just last week he co-authored a review of Obama's "toxic" budget speech: "Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1? We ask because President Obama's extraordinary response to Paul Ryan's budget yesterday—with its blistering partisanship and multiple distortions—was the kind Presidents usually outsource to some junior lieutenant. Mr. Obama's fundamentally political document would have been unusual even for a Vice President in the fervor of a campaign." And: "The speech he chose to deliver was dishonest even by modern political standards."
An amusing note: Among the 10 entries was a column blasting PolitiFact for calling the right's (e.g. Rago and the Journal) successful branding of Obama's "government takeover of health care" as its "lie of the year." Nowhere did he mention that PolitiFact recently won a Pulitzer of its own. This didn't seem to bother the judges, although perhaps they agree: Pulitizers don't nearly matter as much as people claim.
