Lizard Listing By Jeffrey Lord
"It was a front-page story, fairly typical for the Post. Its equivalents have been run doubtless by the hundreds during the course of various Republican administrations since the Nixon years, arguably the dawning era of today's culture wars.
Yet as Americans really laser in on what O'Reilly is saying in describing an ongoing battle between 'Secular Progressives' or 'SP's' and 'Traditional Warriors' or 'T-Warriors' (and if bestseller lists and O'Reilly's radio and TV ratings are any indication than they surely are), understanding what's really being said in this June 21st Post article is worth translating into plainer language. And no spin: its implications for any Republican elected president in 2008 are as important as they have been for the Bush presidency and every one of Bush's recent Republican predecessors.
The story, headlined 'Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed,' is a classic example of O'Reilly's 'SP's' duking it out with 'T-Warriors.' Doubtless unwittingly, it spotlights one aspect of the culture wars that has somehow managed to escape serious scrutiny -- the federal government bureaucracy and the much ballyhooed fiction that career government officials are sterling non-partisans of a neutral Civil Service."
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