SELL OUT: What the dickens is this? It’s a piece your male associate editor wrote for Tina Brown’s Internet Tendency (can we still call it that?) about Terry McAuliffe’s insane Virginia governor campaign, fun. It has a vague “structure” and “argument” and simply would not have been appropriate for Wonkette. [Daily Beast]
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I hope you realize this is just another step along the career path to Jim Newellington, WSJ op-ed columnist.
Don’t turn out like Meghan.
Waidaminnit. Newell is writing on PuffHo… FOR FREE???
WTF kinda horrible mind altering drugs are you on, man!
[re=334307]memzilla[/re]: Who said free?
You can scrub and scrub and scrub, Jim, but you will never be able to wash out the skank of Wonkette, no matter how hard you try.
I only clicked it for the page views. You owe me.
Okay — I don’t like McAuliffe, I don’t know anything about the other guys and I don’t trust the Post. Damn, I’m actually going to have to do some research before I vote.
[re=334305]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: No, no, I am looking forward to his column on how it is possible to blog and yet still hope to have sex at some point in your life.
I foresee a new chapter in young Meg McCabes thinly-veiled roman-a-clef wherein naughty Tweets are twat with a certain ginger Lothario.
Um, OMG. Please tell me that isn’t really a picture of Jim accompanying his Tina Brown pr0nographic column.
Please?
Why did nobody warn me he was a ginger?
[re=334308]Jim Newell[/re]: Well done and all, old sport, but you have a ways to go before your columns are as paranoid as Ken’s.
Geez Jim. How about giving a guy a warning before he clicks on a link to ‘Demon Denim’ by George F@#$*NG Will. I nearly lost my lunch.
But you’re right. This article would have been totally inappropriate for the great unwashed readers of Wonkette – it had too many long words. Best posted on the oh so savvy Beast.
[re=334308]Jim Newell[/re]: PHEW! I confusinated and scared myself, thanks for clarifying.
Please return to your regular dosage.
[re=334312]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I have been waiting on tenterhooks to see what polls say about who can beat McDonnell so I can vote for that person. At this point, only Deeds has a vague chance. I am glad McAuliffe doesn’t, because it would have made me physically ill to vote for him. He has sent at least two mailers per day and about 5-7 calls per week for the past few months, so that even if I had liked him, the volume of crap he has sent would have changed my mind. Do people really say “you know, the first 357 mailers didn’t do it, but this 358th, THIS one has made me want to vote for this candidate!”?
p.s. Jim – good job. We’re so proud of you!
Granted, Wonkette is about “DC Gossip” so this very boring election may be of some interest to a few of us, but does it really compare in importance and snark potential with the SCOTUS 5-4 decision to force elected judges to recuse themselves from cases involving major contributors to their own campaigns? Including the totally wacky minority opinion by the gang of four.
Let’s try and get this into focus.
Needs more boobs!!
1.) Newell, if you’re going to work outside the Wonkette pajamas-and-vodka gestalt, you will need to get some sun, or at least get slmeone to photoshop that picture.
2.)Macauliffe’s manic act just doesn’t wear very well, but the twits on the Post’s editorial page don’t get Arlington, let alone Farifax. They get points for not backing either Mac of Parky, for all the bucks and Clintonian whatever. But Deeds? Ask yourself, if this guy is such a hot shit reformer, why is the NRA backing him? I just doubt the Post has anyone left on staff who could find Richmond on a map.
There was another point, but way too serious and all due apologies. TM would make a GREAT birthday party clown, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.
[re=334308]Jim Newell[/re]: Is there a Beast Blog Party where you and Meghan get acquainted?
[re=334330]Doglessliberal[/re]: Sounds a little like waterboarding.
I disagree, in the comments!
Anywho, way to work in a “whatever” into your extra special new column, Jim.
Does this mean you’re going to post your resume on twitter?
[re=334321]taylormattd[/re]: Why did nobody warn me he was a ginger?
You’re either new-ish here or you don’t obsessively read every last comment on every single Wonkette post every day, unlike some weird and strange people here.
*whistles while looking at shoes*
To quote Eric Cartman, authority on all things political & otherwise:
“If you think that the ginger problem is not a serious one, think again.”
I think it’s shameful that our editors feel they should be paid to write blogs just because most of us are being paid to read them. Hold on a sec, boss is coming….
Jim Newell Moons Terry McAuliffe
Two pages? Fuck you Mr. Jim Newell. Fuck you.
Do you get to work in the same bedroom as Meghan – you know the one where she has the laptop tenderly above her lady parts?
If you hit it off, maybe you can ghost-write her next children’s book. (I’ll bet she won’t notice if you use the word ‘cunt’ or discuss gorilla rape, based on her recent twitters)
I’m still trying to diagram the article’s second sentence. It’s beginning to look like the NYC subway map.
So the Daily Beast wouldn’t accept “Terry McAuliffe is an asshat, the end” as an article submission? Snooty company you are keepin’ there, Jim.
Psudonymous anonymous Internets blogger “the wonkette girl” OUTED as Art Garfunkel in 1968.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it still can’t win a primary election in Virginia.
Jim, please email me before you go to a cocktail party at Tina’s house. I have some tips for you.
I guess this means that you can’t just BUY an election anymore.
Moran’s the way to go in this one.
McAuliffe is a total asshat, that’s well covered territory here but Deeds’ Foghorn Leghorn bit is almost as annoying.
Plus, he loves guns and hates teh gayz- can PedoBear be far behind?
Sooo… Jimmy. Question: Tina Brown – a cougar or just an ‘old’? I remember her as being kinda hot back when she was running the New Yorker (into the ground).
Pee Ess, you rite guder then Meegan MacKane.
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