How does this tripe get published in the WSJ, of all places?

A rant about the jingoistic rant in this morning's WSJ OpEd page.

Gentle people,

Did you happen to see the semi-psychotic, jingoistic rant from the far right that is the Hoover Institute at Stanford University in today's Wall Street Journal? http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109157502374182219,00.html (subscription required, sorry)  

Beyond that, it closes with an OPEN THREAT to those in Europe who dare to say what we know is true - Shrub has caused nothing but broken relationships and dissention with America around the World, and America needs to change course or risk isolating itself for the worse in the future (recall, "yur either fur us or agin us an' with them evil doers!" - or some facsimile thereof - stated by `43', in January 2002).

Now, I can understand this garbage getting airtime with Rush Limbaugh, Bill ("Shut up, America!") O'Reilly, or any one of the hundreds of other news outlets controlled by Rupert Murdoch, but how on God's green Earth does this tripe rise to the level of mainstream that it made it into this morning's Wall Street Journal?

As I said about Paul Gigot's column earlier this week, "Is that the best you got - `cause you're scarin' me with all this sophomoric argumentation here?"  

It pains me that the source of this diatribe is affiliated, however tangentially, with my alma mater.  Of course, if Shrub keeps up his "most excellent adventure" of laissez faire stewardship of our (a) economy; (b) international relations; (c) national security; (d) employment of the working populace; (e) the environment; and (f) our natural resources - then he too may join Hoover atop that pantheon of pathetically bad presidents, and maybe even score a racist, elitist, xenophobic, ultra-right-wing "institute" in his honor, too.

Best regards,
frisco