evt_logoPHXated has been under the weather and is just now catching up on a few things. An op-ed piece from a couple of days ago in the East Valley Tribune may be a portentous sign of the way the paper’s new management will be taking it:

A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.

A recent case in point was Obama’s bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed.

Emphases added. The authors, Roy and Mary Beth Brown, went on from there vigorously arguing their thesis, such as it was.

There are two types of people in the world; those who find the Browns’ political insights compelling, and those who find it odd to describe the spastic drooling of Pajamas Media’s Roger Simon as “analysis.”

Those in the second group will find it odd the EVT, which is not a Cro-Magnon operation, published the Browns’ essay.

Two theories:

It’s possible that the paper, which is operating with a staff size of about 20 percent of what it was three years ago, is in such chaos inside that it’s understandable that some Tea Party drivel that comes in over the transom could accidentally get published.

On the other hand, maybe it was deliberate.

In that case, it could be either a new gambit by the paper to make it the go-to publication for the state’s Tea Party fringe …

…or—more ominously, given that that might not be a strong business move—just a taste of the new owner’s political sensibility.

Anyone have an alternative explanation?