• February 13, 2012

michael calderone

One of the few Politico staffers we haven’t boycotted and an actual pleasant human being we’ve actually dealt with on the telephone and in person, Michael Calderone is leaving his media blog at WinTheMorning.com for a mysterious new Yahoo News venture. Why does Yahoo even need a reporter person like Calderone when news.yahoo.com gets 40 [...]

On Monday night your two Wonkette associate editors attended a Dinner Party thrown by the digest The Week, called The Week Opinion Awards, and we’re only posting about it now because hey, shut up. It was somewhat “A-List,” meaning (a) why the poo were we invited and (b) why the poo did we go? Because [...]

COMMUNIST EZRA KLEIN JOINS WASHINGTON POST: Everyone say it, SELLLLLLLL OUUUUUUUUT. SELLLL. OUUUT. Yeah. Famous liberal blogger Ezra Klein of The American Prospect has been plucked away from his precious niche magazine by the Washington Post, where he will blog. Klein is also the Grand President of the Secret Leftist Communist Pornography Cabal, Journolist. Congratulations [...]

Yesterday the Politico — and fine, here is your precious LINK, Calderone! — revealed to the world the Secret Leftist Cabal Chatroom where policy experts talk to bloggers off-the-record and tell them what to write on their blogs. Its Master is young communist health care blogger Ezra Klein, who decided to bring these people together [...]

Oh, wonder what they are talking about today on America’s most illicit chain email, Die JournoList. Hm, how do you say “Michael Calderone” in Navajo? [Politico] Here is some playful near-homophone, anti-homophobe agitprop, brought to you by, who else, Chicago-based gays. [Andrew Sullivan] This must be a new photo that’s surfaced of the Vietnamese elaborately [...]

Last night Obama went to introduce himself to the White House press corps briefly, politely. A Politico reporter started harassing him about one of his appointments. Obama told him to STFU, he could ask it at the next briefing. Politico writes the following lede this morning: “President Obama made a surprise visit to the White [...]