Look, I still think people who deny liberal media bias do so only wildly denying and/or distorting reality. I still believe this to be so incandescently true that I find arguments about liberal media bias exhausting and unenlightening. But every now and then you’ve just got to point some things out for the record.

In this interview with Andrew Rosenthal, the Times’ editorial page editor and son of longtime Timesman Abe Rosenthal, we learn that Dad had been a Communist in his youth. That’s not that surprising and not very damning given his age at the time. But it does fit a certain narrative. But that’s not the fun part. The fun part is where Andrew Rosenthal, in defending their web editorial content explains that “We have Stanley Fish, who is our curmudgeonly semiconservative guy.”

Stanley Fish.

I have no huge beef with Andrew Rosenthal. I’ve only recently started looking at the Times op-ed page again after several years of mostly ignoring it save when something was brought to my attention. But, is it really so controversial to point out that any place that can dub Stanley Fish as their “semiconservative guy” is a place with some serious ideological biases.

Perhaps NR should get some more ideological diversity? We can hire Max Boot as our “semi-pacifist” or maybe we could sign up Judge Bork as our “pop culture guy”?

Bonus: Check out the picture of Arthur Sulzberger on page 2. He looks like he could be the French-speaking villain from the Matrix sequels.