Having highlighted Charlotte Allen’s disastrous op-ed for the Post’s Outlook section last Sunday, I wanted to follow up with this good dissection by Post ombudsman Deborah Howell of the paper’s thinking behind the story (not to mention Katha Pollitt’s smart critique from Friday). Kudos to Warren Bass for getting it right, though I’m still kind of shocked that five women within the Post read the piece before it was published and thought nothing of it. Finally, a friend reminded me that Allen’s former group, the Independent Women’s Forum, was granted upwards of $10 million by the State Department to do women’s rights work in Iraq. Are they teaching Iraqi women that they’re dim, too?
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