"Kristen Lopez Eastlick?"

It seems a local paper in racist/tea party Tennessee is managed by either idiots or liars. Or of course, you know, there's always the possibility they could be both.

Per Southern Beale:

Oh, Tennessean. Your gullibility would be laughable were it not so very appalling. Seriously, what does this say about your reputation that a D.C. lobbyist has managed to fool you not once, not twice, but three times in one six month period? Somewhere on K street a corporate lobbyist is laughing his ass off at you.

In December 2009, The Tennessean ran an anti-minimum wage op-ed by “Kristen Lopez Eastlick,” identified as “senior economic analyst at the Employment Policies Institute.”

"Kristen Lopez Eastlick?"

"Kristen Lopez Eastlick?"

And they weren't the least bit suspicious this was a phony name?