Turning left after two decades leaning right.

But it’s all just the liberal media anyway…

“We are returning to our liberal, working-class roots, a position that pits us squarely opposite the Chicago Tribune — that Republican, George Bush-touting paper over on moneyed Michigan Avenue,” Reed wrote. “We’re rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush’s war in Iraq.”

Reed, who did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment about the change, is the paper’s former book editor who was asked by Cruickshank and Cooke to, she wrote, “conceive an editorial and opinion section that looked like the future.”

Her instructions: “‘Don’t be conservative,’ Cruickshank urged me. ‘We don’t want you to hold back.’”

Signs that the conservative era is over are everywhere, don’t you think?