Yesterday I picked up The Washington Post from my doorstep and scanned the front page for coverage of the latest ACORN scandal. Call me naive if you want to, but The Post is my hometown paper and I maintain high expectations. Yes, even from well-educated liberals in the elite media.

This turns out to be ”my bad,” as the kids say. Apparently I had failed to take into account what a huge news day it was. The Washington Post couldn’t possibly make room on page one for a story about a taxpayer-funded organization conspiring with a “pimp” and “prostitute” to create brothels for underage sex slaves from El Salvador. If they had done so they would not have had the space to publish a 5 by 7 inch photograph of “Principal Judy K.” squirting hand sanitizer on six-year-olds at Matsunaga Elementary School. The photograph is accompanied by an article titled, “Ready…Aim…Scrub!” Kids have germs? STOP THE PRESSES! Bob Woodward is doubtlessly kicking himself for missing that one. (Sorry Bob, you snooze, you lose).

Another front page stunner (column one, nine inches), informs the reader that grocery stores are slashing prices. It’s not an irrelevant story — something one might expect to find on page three perhaps…

But no, there on page three is a story about ACORN: “ACORN to Review Incidents.” It’s tempting to dwell on that gripping and informative headline, but let’s dive on into the content.