Introducing Wonkette Comments
Blogs are conversation, back-and-forth, breaking down barriers, blah blah blah. Whatever. We just want you to create content for us. And keep refreshing those damn pages!
So say hello to Wonkette Comments, a freewheelin' cocktail party located just below every post. As is generally the case in DC, though, access comes at a price — commenting privileges, like seats at the Wednesday Meeting, are invite-only.
As we speak, comment invites are making their way to bloggers, media people, Hill interns, government moles, frequent tipsters, and people whose business cards we've found in our pockets after last call at Stetson's. In the spirit of Gmail, we're giving our invitees extra comment invitations to hand out to their most trusted and least discreet friends.
To learn how you, too, can pay-for-play, read our Comments Faq (to which we add only that those wishing for invites could also try buying us a drink).
The first round of invites goes out this afternoon, so check your inboxes, power players and office drones.
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Hurray for comments!
And hurray for Deadspin...they'll give Gawker IDs to anyone.
by Rusty on 02/21/06 01:43 PM
Well, I hope that everybody's up for Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill in a Dixie cup.
by norbizness on 02/21/06 01:48 PM
This is the first time I have been invited to any cool club whatsoever. Keep up the good work, and I'll be sure to buy you both drinks next time I'm in town.
by Andrew Case on 02/21/06 02:01 PM
FWIW, that picture is no longer accurate; I switched to a much newer typewriter last month.
by Mr. Poon on 02/21/06 02:10 PM
I finally feel like a member of the political elite. Thanks, Wonkette!
by Jesse on 02/21/06 02:15 PM
Oooh...this is nice. I can like, totally converse with people here. Hey DCeiver, what's up? Hey norbizness, whats up? Rusty, whats up?
[Head begins to shrug towards left shoulder...Haddaway playing softly in the distance]
by DetroitWonk on 02/21/06 02:23 PM
Just because I'm a Deadspin commenter doesn't mean I should be posting on Wonkette. I have nothing valuable to add except the occassional Bush twins sighting at the Sports Club/LA. Someone take my privileges away from me ASAP please.
haha. now you will be subject to the inane ramblings I usually reserve for only my dog.
by konstantConsumer on 02/21/06 02:35 PM
Woo Hoo! I've waited for this for so long. Of course, now I have nothing to say.
by madmatter33 on 02/21/06 02:42 PM
Finally, we'll get to see how nerdcore Wonkette's readers are. I'm guessing most make OMB jokes.
by Juvenal on 02/21/06 02:56 PM
I'm a Gawker and Defamer commentor, and like Johnny Shades, should not be polluting this political playground with my drunken views. But I will, and promise to do so only when I'm absolutely housed and reeking of Drakkar Noir.
by thomas on 02/21/06 02:57 PM
Actually, I just realized...I can now go back to old posts and put comments in...so I can make like the funny robots from MST3K and provide commentary...except I'm not a robot...or a fake robot...or being filmed...or funny...or fake funny.
But I mean, I am so gonna go back...find a comment on who's going to be indicted on Fitzmas and I'm totally calling that its gonna be Libby. Seriously, how cool will I be?
by DetroitWonk on 02/21/06 03:09 PM
Finally, I can tell all you guys about the amazing business opportunities I have for you! And about the amazingly cheap pharmaceuticals I am currently offering! You chose wisely.
Is it passe to worry about the Stick?
Can we have an ask AMC section?
Sodomy in a Conservative State Section?
I've got Questions, Who has answers?
Ohh and I lied on my resume!
by russell_s on 02/21/06 05:18 PM
Finally, Wonkette will have its electronic feet held to the fire of biting, critical commentary from snarkopolitical experts, much as Khaled el-Masri was extraordinarily rendered.
Now I can live vicariously through Wonkette, and re-live my days as a youth in Washington D.C.
Do women with veils on their heads still puke in the gutter outside that Adams Morgan/18th Street pizza joint every weekend? Ahhhh, D.C.
by Larry Bird Flu on 02/21/06 05:45 PM
That will never change about this town. Unless you count Scalia. He'll be good for acerbic behavior well into the next century.
by parker91 on 02/21/06 11:22 PM
Oh, my. A D.C. ex-pat, commenting on Wonkette. Whatever will the Natives do?
by Law Dork on 02/22/06 12:50 AM
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