Last night's big loser is...

The Washington Post

It's one thing for a newspaper to exhibit a certain political viewpoint -- that's to be expected. But the Post's shameless harping on the next Virginia governor's decades-old college thesis as proof that he was a secret misogynist was beyond the pale. Perhaps Post felt emboldened by their success at smearing George Allen in his race Senate against Jim Webb, where the paper hammered the dubious assertion that Allen used a bizarre racial slur. In fact, in September the Examiner's Michael Barone wondered, "Is the Washington Post trying to 'Macaca' Bob McDonnell?" After the Democrat's victory, Webb was often referred to in the blogosphere as Sen. Jim Webb, D-Washington Post.