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Chikalada North's avatar

I would argue that you are more than "some schmuck sitting at a laptop." ;) A lot more. And if not, then, thank God for schmucks sitting at laptops because otherwise we would be drowning in nothing but lies and bullshit.

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Lisa Paulson's avatar

Yes, indeed!!

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Democrats disavow the ignorant freak show that is Bobby McMeasles! Pity I can’t re-cancel WaPo.

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Chikalada North's avatar

Right?? I wish I could. I almost feel like subscribing just so I CAN cancel again.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

My e-mail was out when I canceled, so snail mail sent my angry letter to Jeff Benzos.

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Laura's avatar

Who does that? What an 🫏Hole you must be to write something like, “What did these people do to make someone hate them so much as to assassinate them”?! That is some twisted 🤬’d up thinking right there! WaPo belongs in the trash 🗑️

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

McArdle is a major asshole, clueless with privilege, Libertarian. She gets everything ass-backwards.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/wapo-hiring-megan-mcardle-is-their-worst-move-since-supporting-the-iraq-war/

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Val's avatar

I came across a notion about libertarians: they’re like house cats. Entirely dependent on a system they neither understand or appreciate. Me gusto mucho.

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Laura's avatar

Ahhh, Koch Bros is all I needed to read although the article itself was interesting. Thank you for sharing it! It really put her character (or lack thereof) into perspective…she’s a rich 🐩! 🌹

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Elizabeth Behnke's avatar

Yep, you ruined the msm for me, Ogre! Now I am constantly having to explain to people who think the NYT is so liberal that it isn’t, really. Same with WaPo. They are just in it for the $$$, which means they sanewash and suckup in a manner that makes me want to barf.

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The Opinionated Ogre's avatar

"Yep, you ruined the msm for me, Ogre!" It's how I earn my George Soros commission....

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Elizabeth Behnke's avatar

🤣

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Boy, if Ben Bradlee was alive today, he'd never stop throwing up.

And why isn't Bob Woodward doing something about it?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They went to hell after Marty Baron (whose excellent guidance revealed the systemic abuse in the catholic church in the Boston Globe when he was editor there.) retired. Bezos hired a "both-sides do it! Winger who failed to be right-wing enough so he hired a Murdoch tabloid sleeze, Will Lewis, to turn it into a tabloid with no journalistic standards.

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Rue Ryuzaki's avatar

The Washington Post & the rest of legacy& corporate media are just a bunch shameless, thieving, access thirsty shitweasels.

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Edward Hackett's avatar

It would appear that MAGA cult members are so deranged as to believe that disease will only strike Liberals and all the members of the Mad King's cult will be spared. There might be a required entrance exam before you can become a cult member. Please check your brain as you bend over to kiss the Mad King's ring or some other body part. It would appear that we no longer have a Republican Party; it is now a MAGA Party, and as such, whatever the king wants must be good. The MAGA Party's members in Congress who allowed this moron to be confirmed have shown just how the power of fear can overcome the power of reason. Soon the CDC will issue a report suggesting that using leeches for blood letting is a cure for disease, and antibiotics will kill you. Welcome to the 17th century.

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Pandora’s Box's avatar

JFC. I can hardly stand this anymore. And when did we become such blame babies? It’s been a while now. Finally since we cancelled our subscription to that pathetic rag some tiime ago - did that fool McArdle mention how high healthcare costs have contributed to the MAHA movement?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

The right has always been "blame babies", they never admit fault.

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Matilda's avatar

Thank you for writing the rage I feel about the legacy press. They’re worse enablers than faux news et al because they pretend to be non biased.

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james mack's avatar

Washington still has a post?

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Kay-El's avatar

RatFucKer should be demoted to cleaning stopped up toilets at HHS since he doesn’t believe in germs. No gloves either.

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Mike's avatar

This is Trump’s fault. Full stop. He is a felon and sexual assaulter who panders to ANYONE he thinks might vote for him. He has no moral or ethical direction, unless one considers self-serving, ego-maniacal and self-enriching thievery a perverse ethical direction.

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Beth keller's avatar

The psychopath terrifies me working in public health.

I am in recovery and I have a plethora of mental health diagnosis...you've heard the shit he says about it.

I work with a lot of people being in behavioral health and it terrifies me for them as well.

You're breakdown of how they blame is spot on. Enrage the right against the left, then they have their rhetoric to spew repetitively with no back up argument, they just know it happened that way and they hate the left for it....um the fuckers lived through it! IDGAF who blocks shit it, it's our brains way of coping but we know once we hear about it. We were either all glued to our TVs or computer watching it play out second by second, or we are in denial it was happening and of course those ones will just believe whatever you say because they don't know any better.

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Amelia M's avatar

For me, this is the best thing you’ve ever written.

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The Opinionated Ogre's avatar

Thank you!

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Ikalvan2003's avatar

Megan is one of the bench of conservative pieces of shit the WP has to make sure conservatives have a voice. She lies like the other people breathe. Worthless garbage is me censoring myself.

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The Opinionated Ogre's avatar

The legacy press' dedication to bothsiderism is killing us.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

It's a way to duck blame for their destructive policies.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Her pen name was "Jane Gault" she is a Lie-bertarian.

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ssdd's avatar

Someone really needs to resurrect the old Fire Megan McArdle blog.

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