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In the past few years, ancient American abolitionist pamphlet The Atlantic has grown all sorts of successful blogs on its website as part of its goal to one day, impossibly enough, compete with the Wonkette poop joke blog. And then, just last week, The Suits came in with a plan to Grow Traffic (*shudder*) even [...]
UHH… END OF AN ERA? LET’S GO WITH “END OF AN ERA”: Good heavens, the rumors of usurpation have been confirmed! A man “Broccoli” is eliminating the Washington Post‘s most important writing this side of Dana Priest: “The Washington Post has decided to no longer run Sally Quinn’s ‘The Party’ column in the print edition [...]
ABC NEWS TO FIRE EVERYONE! Do you work for ABC’s news division, ABC News? Because if you do… maybe you don’t! “In what it called a ‘fundamental transformation,’ ABC News said Tuesday that it was seeking to substantially reduce its staff, possibly by up to 25 percent. Employees said the news division was seeking 300 [...]
Among the better perks of being White House budget director is the endless stream of smoking hot professional-class babes fucking you all the time. (That, and modest prescription drug co-pays. You won’t bankrupt me, under-active thyroid!) It’s safe to assume that in his first year on the job, youthful nerdbot genius/blogger Peter Orszag has second-based [...]
The most challenging investigative task a prominent Washington journalist could ever face in his or her career is to cover the White House Pool Report beat, where our greatest reporters take turns following the President during off-hours — just in case anything like a sex affair or juicy “gaffe” happens — and then share the [...]
The Moonie Times’ critically mocked real-life adaptation of King Lear appears to have reached its fifth act, where Rev. Moon expands his kingdom into the burgeoning Mass Funeral sector and then fucks off to Paraguay to die. The Washington Times is laying off FORTY percent of its workforce. But… but not for 60 days so [...]
It’s all Palin material out there, friends, sorry. Thousands of available Caribou Barbie blog items, swirling in the RSS feeds, looking for capture. This one: is the Newsweek cover here super sexist, as Sarah Palin claims it to be? Kind of, yes! It’s odd for Newsweek to just steal the leggiest insert photo from an [...]
It sure would be funny if the Washington Times went out of business, except for the poor local reporters and stuff, and Liz Glover, who would be sent to live with Barbara Bush and the Reverend Moon in Paraguay. (The food is shit, a “top-level Pentagon official” tells us.) We assume that the Times IS [...]
THE MOST ANNOYING PROSPECT FOR TOMORROW AND ITS AFTERMATH: It’s not that Republicans could win two governorships in a miserable atmosphere for incumbents/incumbent parties that have had to make tough state budget decisions in the last year, or that strange circumstances in NY-23 are handing that seat to some wingnut unaffiliated with either major party [...]
Good news, Washington humans: the rich right-wing owner of the POLITICO, Robert Albritton, is preparing to launch a local news website, with the admirable goal of further destroying the Washington Post. (Although the Washington Post has great local news blogs and reporters!) And just in case you were wondering, yes: “The site will cover D.C [...]
Ugh SO CONFUSING. So are these healthcare-focused town hall meetings across the nation 1) being constantly disrupted by belligerent, gun-toting angry nutballs or 2) the site of reasoned and civil discussion among people who, for the most part, are acting like grownups?
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South Carolina’s embarrassing Argentine love-tango scandal may have made its governor look bad, but two parties have emerged from this sad nightmare smelling like little roses: Jenny Sanford, and The State newspaper. Yesterday the paper released a pack of hilariously sycophantic requests from various media outlets to Governor Sanford’s office suggesting that — !!! — [...]
