Glorious take-down of Jennifer Rubin

[Proud Public Servant]

4. My problem with Rubin

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).