In its latest attempt to draw readers into fatal traps of anti-information, the Washington Post has redesigned or relocated or re-aggregated or whatever its political coverage into this new thing, PostPolitics.com, which is maybe the same thing as THE POLITICO.
The fancy above-the-fray New York Times tells us all about the Washington cretins’ latest design war, from its ivory tower (heavily mortgaged, unaffordable new headquarters) in New York City:
On Wednesday, The Washington Post introduced a new homepage for its political coverage that appears to have aligned itself – both in content and presentation – as a direct competitor to Politico.com, which is run by two former Post staffers, John Harris and Jim VandeHei.
The site, PostPolitics.com, will be overseen by Chris Cillizza, who was named its managing editor. Mr. Cillizza is a popular political blogger at the paper.
Why did Chris Cillizza personally steal everything from THE POLITICO?
We see the similarities, but the Washington Post needs to work harder. Brilliant ideas like debates about a “BUSH FAMILY COMEBACK?” don’t come to the lazy-minded.
[PostPolitics, NYT]
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When information and anti-information are brought together, they annihilate in a burst of high-energy, low-relevance factoids.
Washington Posttoasties has a new puff piece? No, let me rephrase that, it’s more like a codpiece. Something flashy (not) covering a bunch of tiny url dicks.
Today, we are all Politico.
Tomorrow we are all Drudge.
Entropy cannot be stopped!
“popular political blogger”? That’s like “popular venereal disease”.
Post Politics = Psst Politico. Not too subtle.
The stupidity in this town is growing like tape worm inside me.
Attention: do not look at the new “Columns and Blogs” page, they’ve replaced the usual dumb headshots with B&W versions that have the contrast set to be completely unnerving. Most of those Post people are scary, yes, but they’ve made them look terrifying, along with the handful of decent columnists the paper has.
With the erudite and mature Mr. Cillizza in charge, I’m sure we’ll get such hard-hitting stories like, “Boy, Hillary Clinton is sure a bitch, isn’t she? Hah hah, I called her a bitch!”.
Looks like Wapo also can’t tell the difference between the browns…
http://gawker.com/5525783/the-washington-post-cannot-tell-obama-from-malcolm-x
Jim, your alt-text has a typo. It should read: “Charlie Crist shops at Hot Hopic.”
Post Politicolitics
“Post Politics” anagramizes into both “Optic Pistols” and “Tits Pics Loop,” so, win! either way.
Will protective eyewear be required to read lisp-lipped Chris Cillizza’s sibilant Post Politics posts?
[re=566372]memzilla[/re]: Do optic pistols shoot daggers? ‘Cause if so, I’m so getting a pair!
(I already have tits pics playing on a loop…)
Cillizza? Isn’t that the monster that ate Tokyo?
The Post did not steal this from POLITICO, they stole it from the British TORY POLITICO, which is already suing.
This just in: wonkette also reports on a “Bush family comeback”
Members of the Washington community are anticipating a Drudge siren any minute now.
Wonkette editors, do you actually laugh anymore, or are you just constantly crying and drinking at how much of a nightmarish hellscape the world has become?
A Bush family comeback can not possibly mean anything good to anybody who is not named Bush.
[re=566399]gurukalehuru[/re]: Pays pretty good dividends for anyone named Cheney.
[re=566361]JMP[/re]: Ha ha, Cilliza’s headshot looks like he was caught by Elliot Ness or something and is being processed at a Federal detention center. In 1947.
He’ll probably invite you for a beer for spilling his beans. I’d like to be a fly on THAT wall.
Chris Cillizza will be the main guy at Postpolitics?
Wonkette is safe.
[re=566374]Extemporanus[/re]: Say that three times fast.
Psst… Politico blows! Pass it on.
[re=566379]TGY[/re]: No, that was Clitzilla – the monster that Tokyo ate.
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