No sooner had I posted my column from this week about the New Yorker magazine's political tilt than the magazine confirmed it with a piece that begins, "let's stipulate up front that Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is an odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster." The article decries Governor Walker's "hat tip to the Book of Genesis brigade," as if the New Yorker would prefer the Bible without the first book.
These sort of "up front' stipulations were what I meant when I wrote about the way the magazine seems to assume its readers share a certain political view, and how annoying that is for those of us readers who don't share it.
