Alas, I am *not* writing for the Washington Post now.

Alas, I am not writing for the Washington Post now.

Let me just put that rumor to bed.

Saturday, May 8th at 2:52AM EDT

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Imagine my surprise when British news magazine The Week announced that I was writing for the WaPo:

Who they are referring to is actually the Washington Post’s Charles Lane, who indeed is not particularly buying the ‘distraught over his foreclosure’ defense being made on Faisal Shahzad’s behalf. But if it makes The Week feel any better, I was as skeptical about this particular defense as Charles was…

Moe Lane

(ahem)

Moe Lane. Of RedState (and MoeLane.com).

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You could NOT write for the WaPo

america1st (Diary) Saturday, May 8th at 6:55AM EDT (link)

. . . at least not as it is constituted today . . . unless you were to discard 90% of your journalistic ethical / moral integrity . . . or the WaPo were to increase theirs by an order of magnitude!

It is so depressing to think how long ago it was . . . a good 70 years or so now . . . when the WaPo and NY Times were quite rightfully revered for their journalism and to reflect on what wretched propaganda sheets they have become. We defeated the Nazis, but Goebbels’ work survives as the standard of “excellence” applied to the formerly august institutions of American print & broadcast journalism.

Who will be the Gibbons for the USA after these Vandals have finished destroying the Republic?

Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.

One added thought, America1st

RedBeard Saturday, May 8th at 9:07AM EDT (link)

70 years ago, actually more like 80 years ago, The New York Times was publishing the scandalously false pro-Soviet propaganda lies of Walter Duranty. In the ensuing 80 years, the Times has refused to face its own malfeasance, and still does its best to change the subject whenever it comes up.

An honorable news organization would have come clean as soon as the Duranty lies were discovered, fired the staff members who supported the lies, and publicly condemned Duranty. But the Times did no such thing, continued to cover up the scandal, and does so even today.

In my opinion, there has not been a purpose for The New York Times, at least in the last 80 years, other than the use of the fine absorbent qualities of its paper stock on the floor of Polly’s cage.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

First..Erick Erickson bails to CNN

swamphermit (Diary) Saturday, May 8th at 7:40AM EDT (link)

And now…Moe Lane to the WaPo?!? ALAS!!!

You are the wrong type of writer for the Post....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, May 8th at 8:01AM EDT (link)

one must be a hardcore leftist and or a liberal Republican to write for that RAG!

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If you want to work for the WaPo, tried the Kathleen Parker model

smagar (Diary) Saturday, May 8th at 9:24AM EDT (link)

Step 1: Make a ridiculous suggestion (Sarah Palin should drop out of the Presidential race for the good of the country!). Be sure to do it at a time that’s it’s realistically impossible to actually do what you’re suggesting. (Parker called for Palin to quit in a National Review article published six weeks before the Presidential election.

It doesn’t matter if your “brave” suggestion is realistically impossible. The liberals you’re trying to impress simply need some thin fig leaf to grab on to and hide behind. They need something to justify accepting you into their group. Don’t worry–the MSM won’t brush aside that fig leaf by really questioning the practicality of your suggestion. (They want to hide behind that fig leaf, too).

Step 2: When the conservative media calls you out, play the martyr. (“Short break as writer ties on blindfold and smokes last cigarette.”).

Step 3: Collect payment:
- Full-time employment in the WaPo Writers Group
- A Pulitzer Prize
- A ride on Air Force One
- Fawning treatment on the Stephen Colbert show
- Guaranteed admission to all the “right” parties in Hollywood, D.C. and the Hamptons.
- Status in the liberal world as its next Jane Goodall. Now, you can spend the rest of your life telling stories at those “right” parties about your life with the apes. You can tell funny stories about the cute things they do—pray, love their country.

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

On the "foreclosure stress" theory

Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, May 9th at 2:04AM EDT (link)

Might spending eight months in Pakistan have contributed to his mortgage delinquency?

Or does the Taliban pay really well?