The Washington Post opinion editors searched far and wide, from North to South Pole, from the highest canopies of the Amazon to the murky floor of the Indian Ocean, for a new genius to grace its Sunday edition with the most profound weekly insights on America, God, Morality, and other very important topics. The search for this Chosen One hath culminated, and it is… Dana Milbank, that lunatic down the hall who makes wacky videos about hippies and beer. This, combined with the paper’s recent price increase, makes it inexcusable to not purchase five copies of the Washington Post every day forever. [Michael Calderone]
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Hip hip hooray for the most awesome-est newspaper in the whole universe!
Milbank will be something of a hybrid writer for the Post.”
“Will be?” He’s already powered by gas and alcohol.
Chris Dodd bails out, won’t run for re-election!
He looks like Eric Wareheim. Please tell me it’s Eric Wareheim.
Milbank will be something of a hybrid writer for the Post. During the week, he’ll write for the news pages and under editorial page editor Fred Hiatt on the weekend. David Broder had a similar arrangement a couple years back when he still wrote for the news pages.
So Dana’s being put out to pasture — I guess we’ll soon see him knocking on doors in some random small town conducting research.
If I worked at the Post I’d sure pattern my career after David Broder’s. He’s everyone’s idea of an incisive, thoughtful columnist who brings a fresh perspective to everything he touches.
[re=489955]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: That pic always reminded me of J Mascis, blasphemous though that may be.
Hey, it’s good to see the Post editorial page doing a little to edge away from the dominance of tired conventional-wisdom spewing, center-right, old, straight, white men by hiring a tired conventional-wisdom spewing, center-right, middle-aged, straight, white woman.
Oh, wait, what? Dana Milbank’s just a man with a woman’s name? Never mind; he’ll be just like all the others, except slightly younger.
So, they settled for something from the murky floor of the Indian Ocean, is what you’re saying.
[re=489966]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Yer gettin’ old, just sayin.
The WaPo should have moved on this one a few weeks ago so we could get more of Dana’s insightful opinions on Obama’s vacation attire.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801535.html
[re=489966]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Oddly enough, Dan Millbank was once sodomized by a Purple Jizzmaster, so you’re not too far off.
As the great ship sinks, the tired old white men on the bridge get more and more desperate.
[re=489975]Prommie[/re]: Ain’t no gettin’ about it.
Stephen Colbert looks like shit.
Holy shit! Michael Jackson rose from the dead!!!!
[re=490040]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: No no. That’s the illicit love child of Michael and Howard Stern. So, get educated, no?
[re=489955]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: I thought the picture looked more like the bastard lovechild of Ozzy and Michael Jackson.
[re=490064]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Ah, fair enough. Thought I was going to have to pull out me zombie killin’ gear.
The interesting thing here is that… Well there are two interesting things here.
First, that so many of us went to Michael Jackson in some form or another.
Second, that we’re all talking about zombie Michael Jacksons and/or deranged Jacksonian love children because that is still INFINITELY less depressing and scary than the implication of Dana Milbank getting more column space.
“In the Sunday column, Milbank said he hopes to be able to ‘make a cogent argument that’s not tied to a particular event and doesn’t have the word “yesterday” in it.’”
Also not likely to appear: the words “accurate” or “true,” or anything about any human being other than Dana Milbank.
Thus bringing down the average age of the Op-Ed page down to 78 from Dead.
Sorta like Maureen Dowd, except without the talent, or the bite, or the ability to infuriate, or the kinky red hair… OK, so he’s not like Her Royal Dowdness ay all…
Wow, now that is a picture of a guy in touch with his feminine side! That is a guy, right?
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