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Beware the Crossword Puzzle
If you are a Dartmouth student, you know that the most popular (and the only useful) section of The Daily Dartmouth is the one that includes the crossword, comics, and sudoku. I would venture a guess that each day, hundreds of Dartmouth students work on the crossword, mostly during class. According to an article in Politico today, one can surmise that this is yet another tool of liberal indoctrination.
David Levinson Wilk, the crossword creator for Politico, admits that crossword puzzles have become more and more liberally biased. Thanks to a crossword friendly name and no doubt some liberal puzzle makers, Barack Obama’s name has appeared regularly over the last few years in the games. Surprisingly (or not?), neither “McCain” nor any variation of his name have been answers in any crossword in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or Washington Post.
I suppose if you cannot sway college students with abhorrently biased news articles or with factually incorrect and poorly written opinion pieces, the crossword puzzle really is the best bet.
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