Charles Blow graduated from Grambling State University but now works for the New York Times as “Visual Op/Ed Columnist”. I am not sure what a visual op/ed columnist does but today’s column by Blow is neither visual nor worthy of the New York Times. Blow’s writing is choppy and vapid. His filing today is a 474 word piece of partisan whining for his favorite political party titled “Liberals in Limbo”. While conservatives won’t be shocked that Blow is on staff and writing for the Grey Lady, intellectuals everyway should demand she do better than Blow. One has to wonder, what does Charles Blow offer the New York Times reader?

In a laughable and self-described attempt to be “intellectual”, Blow’s piece today quotes 4 public opinion polls showing how the American electorate is getting more conservative. Blow calls it an “unconscionable conservative tilt in the electorate” and goes on to blow more partisan wind with his knee-jerk homage to Arizona’s new law, Elena Kagan, the oil spill in Louisiana and pro-lifers. Blow adds no analysis or irony to any of his liberal themes, leaving Times readers feeling fleeced. Blow offers no examination of the polls, the changing dynamics of the American electorate or historical context of Congress changing hands. Blow’s writings are simple shout-outs to his facebook friends that already know his opinion on everything. For those of us who don’t know Blow we aren’t compelled to read the Saturday column that he finally got in the New York Times after so many years of trying. Most of us want a Saturday column that’s just well-written and makes us think.

After reading Blow, you are left to wonder why the New York Times gives a weekly column to someone so partisan and void of new thought.

I think today’s over-Blow is supposed to be an encouragement to his fellow partisans that although America is tilting right for this year’s elections, they should just sit tight and wait it out because we all know that liberals are more intellectual and conservatives don’t go to schools like Harvard so they couldn’t possibly be smart – so be proud that you are part of the intellectual crowd and not that simple crowd. He’s more elitist than the New York Times, actually. Which is probably why we’re offered the chance to read him on Saturdays. I’m no longer wasting 5 minutes on the weekend.