Reason #5,098.064 Newspapers Are Losing Readers

We're used to ridiculous articles being written in the MSM (you can go here and see hundreds of them), hell, bloggers thrive because column inches are given to hacks. Today in the Inquirer they published a piece that is so inane that it should be held up as a shining example of dead-tree news idiocy:

Most country songs are larded with conservative values about God, patriotism, and the right way to treat a honky-tonk angel.
Where, I ask you, is the lefty point of view?
In the spirit of unity for a new year, I propose a melding of blue-state content with red-state form - the purple contrivance known as the liberal country song. Here are a few snippets:

A Country Gay Marriage
Earl and Jimmy are in love.
They're plannin' a large weddin'.
Just 'cause they share a trailer,
Don't mean it's Armageddon.
And how's it hurt your marriage, folks,
If these boys go and try their own?
A neighbor couple so committed
Might raise the value of your home.

...Right-Thinking Christians
Only Christians know the way, now.
Only saved folks see what's right.
All that Koran, Talmud stuff
Merely blocks you from the light.
If you flinch at Ten Commandments
Posted high up in the school,
Then you miss the bigger picture
And become the devil's tool.

...A slightly altered chorus of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"
And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free.
And no one like John Ashcroft
Is allowed to spy on me.
And I gladly stand up
Next to you and defend my right to say,
There ain't no doubt I love this land
Just not in the same way.

I'm speechless that this drivel made it past an editor and into the paper. I know it's an attempt at humor (and a poor one at that) but to waste space in any paper, let alone a major paper, on this garbage is astounding.