Wait, what?

So, according to Matt Yglesias, Slate is a right of center publication. Slate.com. This one. To which I say: really?

No, I mean seriously: do people on the left actually view Slate as a right wing news outlet? I find this befuddling. Ross makes a good point: Slate does have a few conservative regulars (Emily Yoffe and Will Saletan, Mickey Kaus, I suppose…though I always kind of thought he was a DLC dem). But if you look at the vast majority of their writers–Dahlia Lithwick, Tim Noah, Dana Stevens, Emily Bazelon, Fred Kaplan, etc. etc.–are not just left, they are left left: the democratic wing of the Democratic party, if you will. Even Christopher Hitchens, a man whose writing I greatly admire and did much to shape my view of the post-9/11 conflict, is no conservative on most issues.

Which brings me to my main point: how liberal do you have to be to consider a publication like that center-right? Like, crazy socialist liberal? SLA liberal? Barack Obama liberal? Just asking.