Jennifer Rubin Just Can’t Stop Making Up Stories About Social Conservatives

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 06:51 AM  | 

It would not be the first time Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post’s supposed scribe of the conservative movement, has taken liberty to smear social conservatives she loathes. It seems this time she’s being a willing mouth piece for Richard Grenell, the jerk Mitt Romney hired as a foreign policy spokesman. And let’s put heavy emphasis on the jerk part as Rubin does not even bother | Read More »

Did Fred Hiatt Change the Mission and Just Not Tell Anyone?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 19th at 05:35 PM  | 

Conservatives have come to expect liberal organizations to hire purported “conservatives” to cover the conservative movement in a way that self-affirms liberal notions of conservative neanderthal-ism. But there is a problem in Jennifer Rubin covering conservatives at the Washington Post. According to the Post’s ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt hired Rubin “to be an opinion blogger who would appeal to conservatives and | Read More »

Jonathan Pollard

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 12th at 05:00 AM  | 

I have known Jennifer Rubin for a while and really like her, but I am terribly befuddled about her Washington Post blog “Right Turn.” It has descended into advocacy of getting the traitor Jonathan Pollard out of prison. First, I have no idea why that has anything to do with coverage of conservatives and secondly, I think she’s gone a bridge too far now. Certainly | Read More »