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Why Must Fred Hiatt Continue To Sully This Poor PR Lady’s Name?

It’s clear that the Washington Post’s evil whorish neocon opinion editor is intent on losing all of his newspaper’s subscriptions — and just as the Post is about to raise fares, producing the proverbial double-whammy of Failure. But why must he force this Jennifer Lee, who simply needs a paycheck in a tough economy, to sign her name to such bad-faith filth? FRED HIATT CHIVALRY FAIL. (And yes that link is purple because we clicked it, once, and for that we apologize. No clicks for you, however!) [The Awl]


2:58 PM on Wed December 9 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:02 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Just take 5 seconds— and imagine Sarah Palin as your President.

  2. thefrontpage says at 3:02 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Merry Wiccanmas!

  3. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 3:04 pm, December 9th, 2009

    That Sarah Palin sure writes better than she does the talky-talky. Sounds almost like Bill Kristol in fact - not that he writes well, just, you know…

  4. V572625694 says at 3:05 pm, December 9th, 2009

    One of your more cryptic posts, to be sure Jim!

    Sarah Palin is to science what Dog the Bounty Hunter is to law enforcement. Everyone knows you should get your science from such august Wissenschaftlers as Jenny McCarthy and Bill Maher.

  5. V572625694 says at 3:06 pm, December 9th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: Fuck you forever for putting that out there.

  6. Come here a minute says at 3:08 pm, December 9th, 2009

    That science is not trustworthy — it needs more Jesus!

  7. Suds McKenzie says at 3:08 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Using Sarah Palin to generate “clicks”, well I never!

  8. memzilla says at 3:08 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Spelling FAIL.

    Once again, this typo associated with anything Sarah Palin. OP-ED = DO-PE.

  9. The-who-the-what, now?

  10. Radiotherapy says at 3:13 pm, December 9th, 2009

    OhOhOH, WaPoWapo, NoNoNO, StopSTOPSTOP
    GREEN BALLOON, GREEN BALLOON

  11. SayItWithWookies says at 3:14 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Sarah Palin wants good science — but which kind? The kind that you feel in your gut is right, the kind that’s right because the Lord said it, or the kind that helps Exxon?

  12. twowheeljunkie says at 3:14 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans should be wary about what’s written in the BIBLE!

  13. shadowMark says at 3:16 pm, December 9th, 2009

    In “her” editorial she writes about stuff she did as Alaska’s governor. She’s talked about that before. Wow. She must have been like the greatest governor ever. Like Mayor Daley was mayor of Chicago forever, Palin must have been governor of Alaska for decades. Those people in Alaska must have been so sad when, uh, what, aliens came and pulled Sarah away from that job she was so good at?

  14. Folks who don’t trust science do the right thing! Next time you’ve got the sicks & are dying skip all that sciencey stuff like doctors and hospitals and druggggggs (that aren’t meth). Just stay at home an prey, er pray.

  15. snideinplainsight says at 3:17 pm, December 9th, 2009

    She can see Antarctica from her front porch!

  16. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:18 pm, December 9th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts:
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!

  17. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:19 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Palin is to science
    AS
    Salt is to a slug.

  18. Hiatt doesn’t even read his own fucking paper. The WP ran a story debunking “ClimateGate” on the 5th:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120404511_pf.html

  19. jetjaguar says at 3:19 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Jesus rode a dinosaur!

  20. snideinplainsight says at 3:21 pm, December 9th, 2009

    “Er, Arctica. What is the opposite of Antarctica?”

  21. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 3:23 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Palin hates Polar Bears. Wants to wipe the motherf****** off the face of the earth and she doesn’t who she has to hurt to see them gone. End of story.

  22. Jukesgrrl says at 3:27 pm, December 9th, 2009

    “…just as the Post is about to raise fares.” People still PAY for that paper? I did back in the day when Katie was getting her tit caught in a wringer, but that was a lo-o-ong time ago (like back when people knew what a wringer was — can I have a shout-out from the old people?). Maybe if they’d pay ME …

  23. This isn’t Jennifer 8. Lee, is it? I mean, it would be bad enough if she had to write this crap, but if she lost her number, too, that would be unforgivable.

  24. Gorillionaire says at 3:32 pm, December 9th, 2009

    I am keeping out of this until we hear what GhostReagan wants to say about this climate change conference business in the Dutch place.

  25. Radiotherapy says at 3:36 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Monsieur Grumpe: She thinks isotonics is about gloves.

  26. JooJoo Bee says at 3:40 pm, December 9th, 2009

    WaPo won’t let me use the word “twat” in my comment about that twat’s op-ed piece. So I can use it here, right? Oh good.

  27. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:43 pm, December 9th, 2009

    WaPo — WaTimes. Same difference!

  28. Jukesgrrl: I’m an old! I remember wringers, do you remember that as the clothes went through the wringer, if you were a real pro, you twist them, so they go through twisted, the most effective way to wring the water out. And after the wringer, the clothesline!
    om’s bras blowing in the wind, good times.

  29. Those whacky scientists and kooky foreigns and just trying to hornswoggle us out of our precious freedoms, as such. Also the brave troops, fightin’ round the world. I don’t cotton none to folks tryin’ to bamboozle the brave troops, too, as well.

  30. Repuke bag o' taint says at 4:11 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Wouldn’t neocons if they thought global warming was real begin saying ad nauseum that we should invade the sun? Also, after much research into the right wing viewpoint on environmentalism, I’ve culled these essential pieces of rhetoric (The greedmeisters must uphold consumerism at all costs, America’s lifestyle (buying cheap, poisonous plastic crap made by slaves) must continue unabated. Natural resources will NEVER run out, and pumping billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere that took millions and billions of years to collect underground= no problem, god gave us this planet to use as we like, it’s in the bible fer crissakes. So stop being such a pack of liberal pansies and whining about “pollution” and caring if your child has an extra appendage, god wanted it that way. Rachel Carson (RIP, still) and Al Gore along with thier “scientists” (who needs science when you have Sarah Palin winkin’ at ya while you read the bible)are nothing more than elitist, communist, fascist, socialist homersecksual muslins out to destroy Christmas and jesus “junk”.

    Climate change deniers are greedy,corporatist, cheap wingnut assholes, also.

  31. comicbookguy says at 4:20 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Silly atheist commie librul morans. Jesus rode a dinosaur, not a polar bear!

  32. Starrigavan says at 4:20 pm, December 9th, 2009

    One of the things our Sarah didn’t mention in her editorial was that when she was governor of Alaska she said that global warming was real and was something the state needed to take seriously. So is this a flip or a flop?

  33. Doris Ziffel says at 4:34 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Jukesgrrl: “just as the Post is about to raise fares.” People still PAY for that paper?

    You can still get the Post almost free if you want. Just call and say you want to cancel, and they BEG you not to. It’s really fun, because they ask a million questions about why you want to cancel, and you can really let them have it. Then you finally, grudgingly agree to keep receiving it for almost nothing– 99 cents a week.

  34. Next week, famous Alaskan four-college dropout will espouse new theories on evolutionary genetics, followed by presentation of paper on antibody responses to H1N1.

    As per neocon rag and toilet paper roll “The Washington Post:

    Flunking out of four colleges + gut degree from Idaho college = Five PhDs from MIT.

    Ha, ha, MIT nerds. The WasPo will never publish your papers.

  35. dr.giraud says at 5:08 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Hart88: Hiatt has turned his own fucking domain into the retard-lite version of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Nice work, Freddie! Fredster! Douchemeister.

  36. OCKerouac says at 5:25 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Doris Ziffel: So if you are willing to let your neighbors see the WaPo on your doorstep they’ll give you 99 cents a week? Wait… You still have to PAY 99 cents? No deal…

  37. SkoalRebel says at 5:59 pm, December 9th, 2009

    From his bio: Fred Hiatt is the author of “two books for children, ‘If I Were Queen of the World’ and “Baby Talk.’”

    Good at the second, aspirant for the first.

  38. Darkness says at 6:19 pm, December 9th, 2009

    Shew, damn good thing Sarah Palin isn’t applying any politics to this issue.

  39. LowerdPeninsula says at 12:43 am, December 10th, 2009

    This is specifically what makes me so disgusted with American conservatives. Every. damned. thing. they do seems regressive and mean-spirited. It’s an ideology that seems to go out of its way to be purposefully nasty and regressive as possible. The environment? Fuck it. Workers? Fuck ‘em. non-Americans? Bomb ‘em. Science? Surely the Devil’s magic.

    What a bunch of fucking disgusting pig-dog. Sorry, no snark.

  40. Jukesgrrl says at 1:35 am, December 10th, 2009

    Prommie: Ah, those were the days … when you didn’t have to pay Sephora for a smell called “Clean Sheets.” Now, mind you, my mother was the one doing the wringin’ and the hangin’, so maybe that also added to the loveliness of the smell.

  41. Jukesgrrl: John Mitchell said that. And just who was it had what body part caught where? Karma.

    My mother used a ringer, attached to a newfangled washtub on the back porch on 4th St. And a man came with a block of ice Tuesdays. And there was never enough of anything but what you needed less of. But we were happy then.

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