This morning the Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell, whose journalistic integrity has never allowed him to emulate his local sports media peers in their collective suck-up-the-the-Skins ethos, begins his vivisection of Daniel Snyder’s Redskins thusly: “What have we done to deserve this?”   Boz is asking, rightly: What have we Washingtonians done to deserve the sickening stewardship of Snyder, which is fast establishing a record for infamy? And his question is skillfully offered in the context of Washington’s unseemly status as home to a century’s worth of wretched sports team owners.   Of Snyder’s La Cosa Nostra approach to extracting dough from the team’s faithful fans, in an economy nearly as sinister as the Great Depression, Boz observes: “If ticket buyers with multiyear contracts suffer from economic hard times, the Redskins do not emulate at least nine other NFL teams, as well as local franchises such as the Capitals , and simply cancel the tickets and sell them to someone else

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At Long Last, Are the Local Media Gloves Off for the Danny?