Jennifer Rubin Is the Writer the Washington Post Deserves

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Remorselessly hawkish Washington Post “Right Turn” blogger Jennifer Rubin is a professional liar. From her perch in the paper’s Opinions section, she publishes lie after lie after lie after lie after lie — too many for any one person to possibly catalog. (Though some have tried.) How does she hang on at the Post? This week the paper’s former ombudsman, Patrick B. Pexton, supplied a helpful clue.

Yesterday, Pexton published an “open letter” to the paper’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, instructing the Amazon CEO to immediately fire Rubin: “She’s just plain bad. She doesn’t 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.”

Harsh and almost entirely accurate. It would have made a sharp and useful ombudsman column in the Post. But when it was his job to express his thoughts about the paper, Pexton never suggested that Rubin be fired.

He wanted to, though. On Friday he told Elspeth Reeve at The Atlantic Wire that he “had intended to write a full column on [Rubin], but wanted to do more reporting and I just didn’t get around to it before I left.”

http://gawker.com/jennifer-rubin-is-the-writer-the-washington-post-deserv-1149254822

Libertarian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will keep Rubin and the many, many right-wing Neocons on staff.

It's good business for when Amazon asks favors of Boehner's NRAGOPhadist House.