State-Run Media Criticizes Kinder For Loving America Too Much

It's hard to argue with any of the following words from Tony Messenger's column in today's Post-Dispatch:

It's easy to see why Nixon wouldn't want to keep Kinder in the loop. The lieutenant governor's Twitter feed is filled with the most far-right Republican conspiracy theories of the day. Kinder has compared liberals to Hitler, politicized a hostage crisis and repeated false claims about "death panels" in the new federal health care law. He even speculated on the worst "tramp stamp" tattoos on women.

It's tough to take Kinder seriously when his daily communication with the public is either purely politically motivated or just plain unprofessional.

Editorial note: Peter Kinder hasn't actually tweeted his thoughts on whether or not the Post-Dispatch is a member of the "state-run media."  He has described the CNN and MSNBC cable networks with those words, along with Ed Martin. He's also publicly stated that "If the day ever did exist when the Post-Dispatch did honest, completely open, above the board, no-agenda reporting of the news, that day is behind us," so I just put two and two together.