Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Friday, October 16, 2009 11:39:26 AM
A few weeks ago, I came on here looking for one of my favorite columnists, Burt Prelutsky. Burt's a right thinker with a great sense of humor about the inherent contradictions and lack of common sense that constitute liberalism, a lot like Ann Coulter, so I was really surprised and disappointed to find him gone. The reason for my disappointment is obvious, but I was really more surprised because Burt was consistently one of the top rated columnists on townhall.com, a site that has a lot of good columnists but also a few that are, frankly, stupid.
So I'm
a bit late, I know, but I feel like I ought to comment, particularly in view of what I read on Burt's site, where he still publishes: burtprelutsky.com. The August 18th entry states that he believes his next-to-last column, which was critical of Islam, might have scared the townhall editors into dropping him, although their stated reason was that they couldn't afford the $20 per column they were paying him.
I was thinking maybe I wasn't coming here often enough,
which is how I became award of Burt's dismissal late, but now I'm not sure I'm not coming too often. Of all the stupid moves,
this one takes the cake. Burt was, as I mentioned, consistently one of the most popular columnists here, while I note that illegal immigrant-lover Linda
Chavez, consistently the lowest-rated columnist here, is still posting
away. That's ridiculous. Based on what Burt said in his August 18th column
about what he was paid, I sincerely doubt that he was fired based on
budgetary considerations. I still like to come here to blog, but I have other blogs that I could use just as well. This is definitely food for thought.
Note: this is the column I promised a few weeks ago that was going to be called R.I.P Burt. Sorry it took so long to post. Burt's a good man, and he deserved better than this.