Adele!

The Pony isn’t Adele’s first brush with controversy lunacy:
Oh, Adele. You’re a girl after our own hearts.

The Pony in this one is the mind-boggling idea of her having a husband — if that’s true, wouldn’t the poor man say that after every single word she writes?

An intrepid reader picked up the phone and called up Adele’s paper to learn a little more about the woman behind the magic:

I took advantage of my lunch break yesterday to call the Kitsap Business Journal. More than morbid, car-crash-variety curiosity, I wanted confirmation that it is indeed a real paper with real people making editing decisions, and not some Onion joke gone awry.

Anyway, a beleagured, Lieberman/Eeyore sounding editor answered with: “All right, let me have it.” Said that I was welcome to write a letter but I’d be about the 1,200th person to do so. Said his paper is contractually obligated to run Adele (pronounced with a long A, by the way), unedited. It seems that Adele is something of a celebrity in Washington state because her column is syndicated there. Added that he would have “taken a red pen” to some of her more inflammatory statements. (Leaving only, “By Adele Ferguson” on the page, I presume.)

He said that very little of the response came from locals and the reaction was from folks like me who saw it on Wonkette. He even lamented that he’d been called every name in the book at that point. (I bit my tongue to keep from pointing out that black folks hadn’t had such a hot day either thanks to the KBJ.) I said that that syndication contract seems to put him in quite a bind, and I felt for him and could even make a free speech argument, but that he might want to proceed with a little more caution when she submits her “pony hidden in the Holocaust” or “pony hidden in Sept. 11” columns.

Oooh, we like that idea! The pony in Kristallnacht is that it gave a lot of people a good excuse to replace some old windows!

The only way we could love this story more is if Adele pulls a Clooney.

Great Job!! [Voices of Palestine]
Earlier: Folks, Meet Your New Catchphrase
The Pony in Corporate Consolidation

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An Army of Davids Attacks Barry C. Lynn

Last night, the Wonkettes left their respective apartments and headed out into the real world, to attend an exciting event at the National Press Club. The event, “An Army of Davids or the Triumph of Goliath?”, was pitched as “a no-holds-barred debate” between these three giants: Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit himself, and author of the just-published An Army of Davids; Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean, and author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; and Barry C. Lynn, senior fellow at the New American Foundation, and author of End of the Line. (They are pictured above, from left to right: Lynn, Trippi, Reynolds, and moderator Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Reason.)

After the jump, our comprehensive coverage — plus more fantastic photos, taken by Wonkette shutterbug Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter. Enjoy!

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Instant Team Party Crash: Legoland Uber Alles

“Whaddya mean ‘what’s in the water bottle?’”

Actual reporting? On Wonkette? No! Because we didn’t pay anyone! And it’s not really news, so much as an obsession with an oft-soused media whore! We didn’t go anywhere, obviously, but we did send Wonkette Photographer Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter!

And freelance writer Mike Sanderson, responding to our call for “unemployed all-purpose contrarians,” sent us a full, first-hand report of the proceedings:

I just left the Hitch-Sully Denmark solidarity anti-protest. A perfect counterpoint, in tone, to the violent anti-Denmark demonstrations: about 75 men and women in black coats, milling listlessly at the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac, holding little flags or homemade Danish paraphanalia, making small talk with each other awkwardly for an hour in the cold wind. Sully didn’t show up until 12:50, but Hitch was there the whole time. You’re right that he ignored his readers, and instead devoted his attention to the print and television media reporters present. Who were desperate for something to report on.

More of his report, and the rest of the gallery of pictures (Liz got all up in Hitch’s grill!), after the jump:

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