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DON’T FORGET TO PISS ON A ‘DUPLICATION MACHINE’ AS YOU LEAVE: Good blogger/columnist Dan Froomkin has posted his last Washington Post piece today, more than a week after Charles Krauthammer fired him. It is excellent. (Except for the part where he criticizes Tim Russert, which is “too soon” — Michael Jackson only died yesterday!) [White House Watch]
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on Fri June 26 2009
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“How did the media cover it all? Not well. Reading pretty much everything that was written about Bush on a daily basis, as I did, one could certainly see the major themes emerging. But by and large, mainstream-media journalism missed the real Bush story for way too long. The handful of people who did exceptional investigative reporting during this era really deserve our gratitude: People such as Ron Suskind, Seymour Hersh, Jane Mayer, Murray Waas, Michael Massing, Mark Danner, Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau (better late than never), Dana Priest, Walter Pincus, Charlie Savage and Philippe Sands; there was also some fine investigative blogging over at Talking Points Memo and by Marcy Wheeler. Notably not on this list: The likes of Bob Woodward and Tim Russert. Hopefully, the next time the nation faces a grave national security crisis, we will listen to the people who were right, not the people who were wrong, and heed those who reported the truth, not those who served as stenographers to liars.”
Now that’s how you leave a job.
He makes no direct statement about his future plans.
But, heavens to Murgatroyd, he has all the qualifications to become an underpaid overworked Wonkette editor! Snarkage, linkitudity, opinionation, invective, and a lackage of alt-textiness.
When will you be making the announcement, Jim and Ken?
Right On.
I can only imagine what kind of sanctimonious bullshit one of the wingnuts would have written as his “outta here” column.
Russert’s reporting prior to his death much like his reporting after his death.
Are we supposed to click on all the links in that column because that could take all day?
Russert trafficked in the same enablement/shilling for Bush in exchange for access that the folks at CNBC did for Fuld et al while all the money evaporated.
But Krauthammer (and Kristol and Podhoretz) is in a whole other league of willful deception. It is the moral duty of decent human beings to cause him severe harm.
Democracy just got a little less safe. And yeah, that’s overblown but Froomkin rocked.
Srsly good piece, naming names & pointing fingers. Hope he gets a gig elsewhere soon, including, yeah: c’mon down, the water’s fine here! snarkitude a-plenty.
I’m glad at last that maybe - just maybe - we’re over all that bullshit Tim Russert hagiography? I’m sorry he had a heart attack, but he was a conventional-wisdom spewing charlatan. Like Chris Matthews.
Worst things that happened to American journalists were the Vietnam War and Watergate. Left them feeling all sanctimonious and full of themselves. Also got them invited to the parties thrown by people who wouldn’t have tossed them a doggy biscuit before 1968. As the prime example of how they were corrupted, look no further than Bob Woodward.
Case closed. Party over. Don’t let the door hit you, etc. Is it no fucking wonder newspapers are a collapsing business?
/following is not off topic bacause, Froomkin!
An infuriating clip is on Huff Post’s Ian coverage. The WH press ass and moronic bad faith weenie Chip Reid now is wondering why the Magic N Obama’s stronger statement on Iran did not magically work to make it all better in Iran in exactly two days, and does that not mean the President is “powerless”. But that kind of infantile BS was not enough. He also asks whether Obama had walked into a trap by making stronger statements against human rights violations in Iran. After the submoronic infantile WH press egged him on to get involved.
2:57 PM ET — CBS’s Chip Reid questions whether Obama spoke out too strongly on Iran. Sometimes the White House press corps is just insufferable.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/26/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_221270.html
My English skills are insufficient to describe this sort of mental and ethical putrescence, and therefor hope that other commenters, or Wonkette can supply the requisite description and commmentary. Our corporate press is truly poisonous, and positively harmful to intelligent public policy discourse in the is nation. What did Madison say about a nation of ignorant uneducated idiots: a farce or a tragety, perhaps both?
I know what would help the WH press corps: beatings. That would be wrong, and I denounce and reject myself for saying that. But it in fact would improve things.
slappypaddy: Nixon and his fixers also flogged and beat them into a cowering mess during the 1972 election campaign. They’ve been reeling ever since.
Dan Froomkin will soon be getting a stern note, in shorthand, from the United American Stenographers Guild.
Just a follow-up not to say that I seriously denounce and reject my own recommendation of beating the WH press corps. It is a bad suggestion. I seriously denounce and reject, repudiate, revile, and renounce myself. I crawl and beg as an abject slug upon the face of this earth for even thinking of it.
But, what can be done?
Froomkin’s new job: joins Obama administration and runs selected pressers instead of Gibbs. That would be worse than beatings, but ethical.
lmj: help you out a little bit with the plain English here: Fuck the fucking fucked fuckers, their brains are rotting shit and their morals are rancid piss. May they live many long, dark years, tormented with regrets.
That help any?
lmj: I denounce and reject your back-peddling over a perfectly reasonable suggestion. Maybe a good swift kick in the testicles would suffice, though. Oh wait….the WH press corps don’t have those.
WaPo hated Froomkin so much that sometimes there was no homepage link to his column and the only way to find it was to do a search for his name in each day’s edition. He deserves better. Live long and prosper, Froomkin. And leave a large bag of flaming dicks for the rest of WaPo’s editors to spend eternity munching on.
where is froomkin?
where is froomkin?
here i am; here i am.
krauthammer’s a moron
thank you, so is kristol.
run away
run away.
Are we supposed to click on all the links in that column because that could take all day?
As a final FU to the post, they’re all Rickrolls.
NJB: Russert was worse than Tweety because no one takes Tweety seriously. Russert was worshipped like he was Murrow, Cronkite the Patron Saint of Journamalism all rolled into one. Hell yes let’s all piss on his grave.
It’s been said before, but Froomkin gets the ax while Richard Cohen and the dumb Davids (Ignatious and Broder) remain. I call on mighty Zeus to rain thunderbolts and shitstorms down on the Post.
Also. I didn’t include Krauthammer because I refuse to believe that anyone with such a cartonnishly ogre-like personality and Pynchon-esque name like “Krauthammer”–ancient Teutonic for Hammer of the Krauts–is even real.
slappypaddy: Fucking fuckers at the fuck-assed Post. “Coming to terms with the Bush era” indeed. NOT. They are collectively sticking their fingers in their ears (or wherever) and making loud, continuous, idiotic noises that will apparently last four years, or multiples thereof. Fuck ‘em!
dr.giraud: I do wonder about that name. I assume it’s an old profession, like Carpenter or Baker, but why would anyone have had a job hammering cabbages? Was it some medieval predecessor of Gallagher?
Oh, well, useless as the first Krauthammer may have been, he still is better than his present-day descendant.
jasper f. krone: this is my favorite song-spoofed-to-comment ever.
Today, we are all Froom’s kin.
MrsNateSilver: thank you, mrsnatesilver. My regards to mrnatesilver, who is my favorite mathemetican-cum-blogger, ever, not including John Allen Paulos (http://www.math.temple.edu/~paulos/), who is not much of a blogger, really. (Jejejeje, he said “cum”!)