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Posted yesterday in DC's alternative weekly, the City Paper: former Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton's open letter to Jeff Bezos, advising him on what to do with his latest acquisition. In it, Pexton analyzes the Post in terms of the Good, the Bad, and...
Jennifer Rubin. Have Fred Hiatt, your editorial page editorwho I like, admire, and respectfire opinion blogger Jennifer Rubin. Not because shes conservative, but because shes just plain bad. She doesnt travel within a hundred miles of Post standards. She parrots and peddles every silly right-wing theory to come down the pike in transparent attempts to get Web hits. Her analysis of the conservative movement, which is a worthwhile and important beat that the Post should treat more seriously on its national pages, is shallow and predictable. Her columns, at best, are political pornography; they get a quick but sure rise out of the right, but you feel bad afterward.
And she is often wrong, and rarely acknowledges it. She was oh-so-wrong about Mitt Romney, week after week writing embarrassing flattery about his 2012 campaign, calling almost every move he made brilliant, and guaranteeing that he would trounce Barack Obama. When he lost, the next day she savaged him and his campaign with treachery, saying he was the worst candidate with the worst staff, ever. She was wrong about the Norway shootings being acts of al-Qaida. She was wrong about Chuck Hagel being an anti-Semite. And does she apologize? Nope.
Rubin was the No. 1 source of complaint mail about any single Post staffer while I was ombudsman, and Im leaving out the organized email campaigns against her by leftie groups like Media Matters. Thinking conservatives didnt like her, thinking moderates didnt like her, government workers who knew her arguments to be unfair didnt like her. Dump her like a dull tome on the Amazon Bargain Books page.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/08/14/ombo-sauce-advice-for-jeff-bezos-from-the-posts-former-in-house-critic/
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)I don't know how any thinking person can be a conservative Republican.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Conservatives essentially hire someone else to do the thinking for them. And they've hired some major doofuses as "employees" for the job. They never follow the logic of their ideas to the end of the chain, so they miss the ultimate points. Hence, they are never aware of the flaws.
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)Is not that she's a Republican, but that she's a flack. The other conservatives on the paper's opinion page -- Will, Parker, Gerson, Thiessen -- all evidence, in their writing, actual political/ideological beliefs. Frequently these are wrong, stupid, repellent beliefs, but there are nevertheless evidence that the author has actually engaged in actual thought and are writing, in the end, about an abstraction called "conservatism." Rubin's writing is never, ever informed by thought or the defense of a philosophical position; it is informed solely by a desire to pimp the GOP (or Israel). I'd like to think that if the Post hired a writer who shilled as hard for the White House as Rubin does for the RNC, I'd be just as appalled.
Plus, say what you want about the other right-wing columnists in the Post, none of them routinely lie; Rubin does, constantly (and the Post permits it by claiming that, technically, she's a blogger and not a columnist).
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)and why?
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
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Cha
(295,899 posts)mahalo PPS!