'WSJ' Moving to the Right?

For those surprised and happy that the WSJ under Rupert Murdoch has not taken its news pages in the direction of its editorial page, it might prove unnerving that Gerald Baker has been named to the #2 editing slot at the paper.  He wrote an anti-Obama piece for the Times of London earlier this year -- titled, "Is America Ready for this Dangerous Leftwinger?"  It declared,  "You listen to Mr. Obama's speeches, it is not the lack of substance but the quality of it that ought to worry Americans." 

It closed with this not exactly prescient declaration:  "Though he talks with great eloquence about the future, he sounds for all the world like one of the long line of Democrats from George McGovern to Walter Mondale to Michael Dukakis, who became history by espousing policies and striking a rhetorical pose that was well out of the mainstream of American politics.

"America is certainly moving left in the post-George Bush era. The long period of conservative ascendancy is clearly over, buried by a Republican Party of recent years that has preached intolerance and practised incompetence. That a new era in American politics is beginning is not in doubt. But are Americans really ready to leap all the way across in one go to embrace a European-style Left."   Also check out his fantastical video.   -- Greg Mitchell