While the Washington Times plays the Zarqawi victory in capital letters across the front page, and even the New York Times puts it all across the front page, the Washington Post tucked it in the right hand corner on top with the dreary headline “After Zarqawi, No Clear Path in Weary Iraq: Difficult Questions Surround Legacy of Insurgent Leader.” What a crappy headline. The man killed thousands, and he’s just an “insurgent leader”?

Getting more space and prominence on Friday’s front page was the latest part in the Post’s “Being A Black Man” series, which started Sunday, as young Marcus Yarboro learns manners and how to tie a tie. (Too bad his college-educated parents couldn’t stay married.) Is the Post’s internal PC police so hard-wired that they if Osama bin Laden were killed, they’d say, ‘sorry, the race series is more important’?

Speaking of internal PC police, the Post gave much more prominent banner-headline play to the April 11 pro-illegal alien protests. And on Iraq? Don’t forget the huge splash they made on the front page on February 28 for “Toll in Iraq’s Deadly Surge: 1,300.” Even the Columbia Journalism Review thought the Post was way out on a limb with its numbers. Apparently it’s all in a day’s work of anti-war gloom-mongering.