Brendan Nyhan

Roger L. Simon: Ideology out of date

Roger L. Simon, the screenwriter/novelist/blogger who co-founded Pajamas Media, sounds like one of the crazed blog triumphalists circa 2002-2003 in this embarrassing quote from a few weeks ago:

Like Townhall, Pajamas Media leans to the right politically, but Simon is unhappy about it. “Ideology is so last-millennium,” he said, adding that he’d like to bring more liberal contributors to the site.

So ideology has no relevance to contemporary politics? It’s out of date? Maybe I need to wear pajamas to understand why a sentence that stupid has any place in a major newspaper.