I don’t make a habit of reading the “KidsPost” section of the Washington Post. That’s how I missed this:

The Vice President’s Hunting Accident
Imagine this: You’re playing baseball with your brother when you accidentally hit him in the eye with the ball. You go inside, and the sitter gets ice for your brother’s eye. Your mom is at work, but you don’t call to tell her. Maybe that’s because you are worried about your brother, or maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal, or maybe you know you might be in trouble, even though you didn’t mean to hurt anyone.
If you can imagine that situation, you might be able to imagine the kind of week that Vice President Richard Cheney has had.

So if Dick Cheney is the little kid, the White House press corps is supposed to be his MOM!!!? I can handle slanted narratives and distortions in the A-section, but putting political agendas in the news for kids?

Earlier today I praised the Post for a running a couple of articles I thought broke from typical media story lines to show the other side of a political issue. Then my friend Chris alerted me to this little excursion into Begalaland. He writes:

It’s not like these inside-the-beltway kids had much of a chance anyway, but please, wait till they’re 18. I have the same philosophy about crack… don’t sell it to the kids.

Just when you think it’s safe to praise the Post, they do something that makes you want to slap a warning label on it.