Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:19 PM
Former WaPo Ombudsman OBLITERATES Jennifer Rubin, Tells Bezos to Fire Her Immediately
Quoting former WaPo ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton:
Not because she’s conservative, but because 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," Pexton wrote. "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 I’m leaving out the organized email campaigns against her by leftie groups like Media Matters. Thinking conservatives didn’t like her, thinking moderates didn’t like her, government workers who knew her arguments to be unfair didn’t like her. Dump her like a dull tome on the Amazon Bargain Books page. The last sentence is what makes this art.  
Former WaPo Ombudsman To Bezos: Fire Jennifer Rubin http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/former-wapo-ombudsman-to-bezos-fire-jennifer-rubin?ref=fpa
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Author | Time | Post |
 Former WaPo Ombudsman OBLITERATES Jennifer Rubin, Tells Bezos to Fire Her Immediately (Original post) |
WilliamPitt | Aug 2013 | OP |
| Vinnie From Indy | Aug 2013 | #1 | |
| FSogol | Aug 2013 | #2 | |
| FSogol | Aug 2013 | #3 | |
| Cha | Aug 2013 | #5 | |
| Blue_Tires | Aug 2013 | #4 | |
| vlyons | Aug 2013 | #6 | |
| Pretzel_Warrior | Aug 2013 | #7 | |
| WilliamPitt | Aug 2013 | #10 | |
| JPZenger | Aug 2013 | #8 | |
| HooptieWagon | Aug 2013 | #9 | |
| maddiemom | Aug 2013 | #12 | |
| JI7 | Aug 2013 | #13 | |
| cali | Aug 2013 | #11 |
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:25 PM
Vinnie From Indy (10,801 posts)
1. Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:27 PM
FSogol (43,091 posts)
2. K & R. n/t
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:30 PM
FSogol (43,091 posts)
3. After firing her, the Post needs to rehire an Ombudsman.
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:33 PM
4. She should have been long FIRED for her shocking display of unprofessionalism
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 04:28 PM
vlyons (8,665 posts)
6. Oucheroo.
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 04:32 PM
7. is that where your book is?
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bahhaha. just kidding.
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Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 04:33 PM
8. Maybe its best to have conservative writers who are incompetent
Response to JPZenger (Reply #8)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 05:13 PM
12. I'm sure that's how Combs kept his job. Not that it was in any way admirable.
Response to JPZenger (Reply #8)
Thu Aug 15, 2013, 05:15 PM
JI7 (86,938 posts)
13. combs arguments made sense
