america’s next great pundit
Conor Willliams wins the title of America’s Next Great Pundit 2010, and along with it a three-month contract with The Post and a launching pad into the world of punditry. Isn’t it more of a diving board than a launching pad? Anyway, congrats, Conor! Now go sponge down Krauthammer with this bucket of vinegar. And [...]
Wow, 50 People Did That Washington Post Win-a-Date-With-Broder Contest
by Jack Stuef
That dumb Washington Post op-ed contest has put up the entries of its first-round winners or whatever, so the future of American thought has been secured. And there are 50 of them, because somehow more than 2 people entered this thing! You can also click to “vote” for some of the op-eds. Some guy named [...]
Verdict: WaPo Pundit Contestants All Massively Better Than Richard Cohen
by Jim Newell
We’ve read these ten columns from the Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive Kaplan Test Prep Daily’s Actual Sex Contest, and not a single one pissed us off as much as an average column by George Will, Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, David Ignatius, Bill Kristol, Fred Hiatt, Jackson Diehl, Ruth Marcus, Michael Gerson, David Broder, etc. But maybe [...]
HALLOWEEN MASSACRE: Sneaky WaPo Unleashes Late, Late Friday Night News Dump
by Jim Newell
CURSE YOU, HIATT.
Washington Post Pundit Contest Submission Period Ends Tonight, You Guys!
by Jim Newell
You have until 11:59 p.m. to submit your essay to the Washington Post‘s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest, the winner of which receives two doses of Richard Cohen’s “orange” flavor Metamucil! Supposedly the judging and elimination rounds will begin late next week and… oh god… we are just not prepared for this avalanche of comedy. [...]
“America’s Next Great Pundit”: A Truly Existing Contest From The Washington Post
by Juli Weiner
The Washington Post is offering you a very special once-in-a-lifetime chance to write a weekly journalistic politics opinion column! If you have ever had dreams of BEING YOUR OWN RICHARD COHEN, now is the time to enter the Post‘s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest, the grand prize of which is an actual opinion column in [...]
