Messenger's Error(s): Chris Wilson's flawed rant about Drupal and whitehouse.gov

The Slate article struck me as a tongue-in-cheek dig at the Obama administration. For example:

"Drupal's defenders are eerily reminiscent of those movement Democrats who were constantly knocking at your front door in the summer of 2008."

or

"If Drupal were a piece of legislation, it would be the farm bill"

No one should take comments like that as a serious criticism of Drupal or the Whitehouse's use of Drupal; it's poking fun at Obama supporters. It's a joke.

I know the author of the piece in question, Chris. He's a writer with no technical background whatsoever, and his job is to write whimsical jocular short pieces for Slate. This isn't a serious critique of any sort. There's nothing to see here.

Slate has a reputation for knee-jerk contrarianism in its writing, not surprising that they tried to go for the same attention-grabbing schtick when writing about software. Sad but typical. This is a good reply.

The original article criticizes the administration side of a web platform in political ways and suggests a multi-million dollar custom built proprietary system as an alternative. It must be a joke.