Just Make It Up

The Washington Post admits that it is guided by an "All The Quotes That Are Fit To Make Up" ethos. 

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[Captain Hate]

The Wapo is having a very bad week....

[sbw]

Was Daryl Fears manufacturing columns to enter the WAPO Eugene Milbank competition?

[Captain Hate]

O/T: I just got an alert on the LUN and am not sure what to make of the finding that Georgia triggered the war. Although since everything else points the finger at Russia I guess this is the best that could be expected from the EU

[Janet]

The Wapo is having a very bad week....

No kidding. Today they have an article on carbon dioxide pollution while the picture with the article shows a big smoke billowing stack with birds flying in the background.
Not sure what is coming out of that smokestack, but carbon dioxide isn't visible.

[bishop]

But how is that differentfrom what they usually do, they just get more contemptible
each day.

[Jane]

I just got an alert on the LUN and am not sure what to make of the finding that Georgia triggered the war.

Geez, I hope someone is actually recording what really happens in this world, because 100 years from now "history" is going to be very inaccurate.

[armadillo]

Some WaPo operatives have suggested:

WaPo tried reporting the facts in a few stories but Obama's poll numbers didn't improve, so it's back to business as usual.

[Rick Ballard]

Bishop,

Have you

[Rick Ballard]

Let's try that again. Preeviw wasn't my fiend last time.

Bishop,

Have you pre-ordered?

BTW - This really is a "water found to be wet" item. Thieves steal, liars lie, propagandists fabricate and disseminate propaganda. Pretending that the WaPo and NYT are other than party organs has become boring. Why not just grade them for what they are? Fears was caught relatively early but he gets a passing grade because the damage cannot be "fixed". He's clearly floating slightly higher than some of the other scum with whom he floats at the WaPo.

[bishop]

Have I what, Rick, considered the write in pundit gig,

[clarice]

Washington Post writer Fears said he targetted O'Keefe because he's a radical lefty who cannot bear to have anyone learn the truth about the criminal enterprise ACORN which with the help of Fear's employers and others got Obama the moron elected.

[PD]

Have you pre-ordered?

It's about time they got that up. The announcement was TWO DAYS ago. :-)

[Jack is Back!]

The only thing O'Keefe has to fear is Fear himself, I guess.

Someone once told me that the difference between the Times and WaPo was the Times was all lies since they didn't have cartoons. Whereas at WaPo the only honest news was the cartoons. Now I understand.

[PD]

Okay, I just ordered my copy. But I see Sarah's book is still only #2.

Bishop obviously has not visited Amazon. :-)

[Gregory Koster]

Rick is bang right. The commenters who say the POST is having a bad week are off the beam. What does the POST care about public exposure? As Daddy pointed out in the Polanski thread, the POST appears to be suppressing Anne Applebaum's idiocy in bawling for Polanski: you can't find AA's column by searching the POST website, but you can find it by a simple Google search. The POST only cares about a niche of readers, whom it will try to lead by the nose. Everyone else can go to Hell. Hence the attacks on O'Keefe, followed by the mean-spirited correction. How many people think the POST reporter got bawled out by his editors for that quote?

Me too.

[JM Hanes]

PD:

"But I see Sarah's book is still only #2"

I'd say #2 for an unpublished book is nothing to sneeze at. [Where does that rather inexplicable expression come from, I wonder?]

[Extraneus]

Funny you should ask...

From allexperts.com:

NOT TO BE SNEEZED AT – “…People in older times imagined that a sneeze cleared the mind. It certainly gave them a feeling of exhilaration. Suddenly, 17th century Europe caught a craze for sneezing. It was considered the right thing to do in good society. Indeed, the more you sneezed, the more you proved yourself a member of the privileged class. To build up this new status symbol, all kinds of devices were used. It was soon realized that snuff caused sneezing. Therefore everyone who was someone carried with him a little box, containing a mixture of sneeze-producing herbs or tobacco. By drawing an ample pinch of it into the nostrils, a hearty sneeze resulted in no time. Of course only the rich and idle had time to sneeze or could afford snuff. Hence the self-induced sneeze became synonymous with aristocratic living. If you were able to sneeze ‘on call,' you showed audibly your status in society. But one matter had still to be decided. Just to sneeze haphazardly was not good enough. There had to be a special occasion. Soon sneezing became part of men's conversation. You indulged in it whenever you wanted to show your disapproval of anything said or, even more so, your lack of interest in the matter discussed. A sneeze was an unmistakable way of saying politely ‘you bore me.' Consequently and logically, anything ‘not to be sneezed at' was something really worthwhile.” From “How Did It Begin?” by R. Brasch (Pocket Books, New York, 1969).

[centralcal]

Ah ah ah CHOO!!

Very interesting, Extraneus.

[JM Hanes]

Questions answered toot sweet -- what did I do before the web and the omnipresent mentoring at JOM? Thanks, Extraneus!

[Extraneus]

You can think Bing for that one.

[Jack is Back!]

Rush, this afternoon quoted Sully about Sarah's book but I can't find anything he has recently written about Sarah and the book. Anyone know where he got the quote.

Sully, who couldn't write 400 words worth anything in 4 months was his over the top self suggesting she had a ghost writer (like The Once) and probably one that was a "christianist".

Two people I am ashamed to be fellow catholics: Sully and Mugabe.

[bishop]

It's No. 1 on Amazon now.

[Rick Ballard]

"It's No. 1 on Amazon now."

If I ever associated with anyone afflicted with progressivism in any of its demented forms I would certainly consider purchasing Going Rogue for them. I would urge those readers here so afflicted (by even casual association) to consider such a gift. It may even be possible to order a copy sent anonymously - think how thrilled a prog would be to find that they actually have a "secret friend". It would give them hope that the halitosis and body odor had finally diminished to a point where another human found them tolerable.

[Janet]

Speaking of corrections at the WaPo - I would love for them to tell us the breakdown of letters they receive.
683 supportive letters for O'Keefe/Giles
4 letters admiring our article
6 curse laden rants
6 unintelligible

I realize they usually print the admiring letter, but I always wonder how many letters come in correcting or disagreeing with them.

[daddy]

I suggest we simply use Richard Cohen's extremely racist comment from yesterday, but just change it a bit.

Instead of "These Persians lie like a rug," how about:

"These Wapo Reporters lie like a rug."