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Posted on July 4, 2008 by andrew

Atrios asks:

What Is The Washington Post Op-Ed Page For?

It isn’t to inform, so it must serve some other purpose. What exactly is it?

Discuss.

A good question, but (somewhat surprisingly) I do have an answer: A home for Tom Toles.

No, I don’t understand why two full pages of crap are necessary for one little corner of genius to exist, but surely there’s an answer for that question, as well.

» Filed Under The Washington Post, Tom Toles, the media

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