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In yet another sign of media bias against Hillary Clinton, The Media is refusing to take the blame for calling Barack Obama a slick-talking handsome word stealing wizard just a few days ago. After all, wasn’t it the media that held a conference call with itself and showed itself some YouTubes of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick saying one thing Thomas Jefferson said and then Handsome Barry saying the same thing Jefferson said? And wasn’t it the media that started hollering about how “When an author plagiarizes from another author there is damage done to two different parties. One is to the person he plagiarized from. The other is to the reader”? No? Blast these Internets! That was all Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s communications director. But of course the media was the one foolish enough to go off and repeat everything some dumb communications director said. MORE »

* More discussion of “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” and the Dominican hookers he’s been sticking it in. [The Republic of T] MORE »

What, you think working for a free paper is all loosey-goosey anything goes hippie bullshit? It’s a business, dammit, you’ll treat it as such! Here, for your perusal, are samples from the dress code at the DC Examiner (instututed, no doubt, after Vivienne Sosnowski showed up in torn denim mini-skit and studded collar) — we note that it doesn’t appear to have been written (or read) by a copy-editor.

From the “Appropriate” column:

* Dresses (length cannot be more than three inches above the knee). ["more than"?]
* Pants in business suitable fabrics. [Satin, leather, vinyl, etc.]

And the more fun “Inappropriate” column:

* Any type of denim (including jean dresses, denim shirts, denim pants, denim skirts, etc.).
* Any material resembling denim.
* Khaki or Docker- style pants. [Harsh, but fair -- we have a similar rule against tucking your t-shirt into your jeans]
* Stirrup pants and leggings. [That, along with their anti-sweatband and big sunglasses provision, explains their disappointing lack of hipster coverage]
* Camouflage clothing [Despite this, they still manage to poach Wash Times staffers]
* Clothing is not to be overly tight nor draw undue attention to ones self.

Full memo after the jump.

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