WaPo Cuts "Mouthpiece Theatre" After Milbank Makes Hilary/Bitch Joke...

[BlooInBloo]

Good. Find something else for Milbank to do with his small dick.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/after-uproar-over-hillary-clintonbitch-joke-post-pulls-plug-on-mouthpiece-theater.php?ref=fpa

"After Uproar Over Hillary Clinton/Bitch Joke, Post Pulls Plug On "Mouthpiece Theater"
By Brian Beutler - August 5, 2009, 2:53PM

Remember how last week, in an episode of the much-derided web series Mouthpiece Theater, Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza joked that "Mad Bitch" beer would be an appropriate beverage for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Well, after TPMDC's initial report on the episode, the Post has killed the feature entirely.

"I don't think the series worked as they intended," said Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli. "It was meant to be funny and insightful and translate the superb journalism Chris and Dana do in print and online into a new format."

But...it wasn't. The Clinton joke, he said, was "a serious lapse. . . . It's really beneath us and not something we should engage in." After the Clinton firestorm, the Post pulled that episode off its website. Apparently, though, the controversy led to a wider discussion about the merits of the feature itself, and the Post decided enough was enough.

"We'd hoped the self-deprecating humor of me and the irreverent humor of Dana would combine to make something funny and interesting and on the news. It wound up not working," said Cillizza. "Ultimately it wasn't funny." "

[Cha]

1. dana milbank is fucking mediawhore who always

misses the mark. Too bad he did do one about his addiction to mediawhoredom before the whole shit idea was dropped.

[Superfly007]

13. He's a sexist fool!

[tularetom]

2. Bullshit - they all thought it was cute

And when it turned out that a lot of people didn't agree. they come up with this ass covering rationalization.

I don't think it would have ever gotten off the ground in the Ben Bradlee days.

Of course I'd like to believe that the Post of the 1970's would never have hired such self important twits as Cilizza and Milbank in the first place.

[montanacowboy]

3. Superb Journalism???????

Seriously, from Dana Milbank? RW tool and scum sucker deluxe? Remember when he got thrown off KO's show? This guy is the bottom of the barrel. And Cilizza is following closely. Looks like he has a mouth full of shit all the time. These two wouldn't klnow "superb journalism" if it bit them in the balls.

Disgusting

[KoKo]

4. I can't believe this post got "Unrec" I just gave you a Rec...

Celizza and Milbank are first class assholes and how they got away with that stupid Mouthpiece Theater for as long as they did says more about the idiots at the WaPo these days than I ever want to know.

[BlooInBloo]

6. (shrug) I'm not exactly Mr. Congeniality, and it's not really the most important story...

of the day. A couple kicks makes it plenty worthwhile. It's all good. :)


EDIT after your last kick: I didn't mean from *you* necessarily. :rofl:

[KoKo]

7. True...you aren't exactly Mr. Congeniality...but that doesn't mean your post

should get an "unrecommend." That isn't the way the feature was supposed to be used as a personal attack. But, we see that in reality, many times it is.

[KoKo]

5. Another kick for this...Damned trolls are running all over the place.

:kick:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. It's important, I think, to remember

that Miss Dana Milbank is a member of Skull and Bones..........................

[BlooInBloo]

9. Oooh - I didn't realize that - hahaha!

[omega minimo]

12. Have you met?

:popcorn:

[BlooInBloo]

10. UPDATE: Milbank laments: "It's a brutal world out there in the blogosphere"...

:rofl:

http://www.americablog.com/2009/08/dana-milbanks-curtain-call-its-brutal.html

[KoKo]

11. Sounds like the ever so "Clueless Milbank." Blame "others" for his own failings...

He got so cute ahead of himself he didn't get the serious tone of our times. He and Cilliza are still living in "BUSH WORLD!" that site where Carney Barkers and Circus Clowns and "thrills up Chris Matthews Legs..and Banners that read "Mission Accomplished" STILL RULE!

So Sad...Chris and Dana...You TIME IS DONE! And, actually both of you should move over to the RW Clair Booth Luce TIME MAGAZINE to SHILL YOUR WARES!

:puke: on both of you for your hideous "Smoking Jacket Journalism" in a time where that shit doesn't work.

[City Lights]

16. Quit yer whining, Millbank!

:nopity:

[question everything]

14. K&R

[City Lights]

15. I wonder if he's still in High School.

He sure acts like it.

:thumbsdown:

I was so happy when Keith booted his ass off of Countdown.

[Qutzupalotl]

17. Dana Milbank unfunny? Go figure.

[badgerpup]

18. K & R

:blush:
It's painful and embarrassing to see people who are professionals (as in 'they get paid to do this stuff') so out-of-touch and disconnected with the real* (as in 'outside the Beltway') world as well as the media as it is outside their cozy, insular little WaPo group.
:nopity:


*Hmm...maybe I should change that to 'rest of the world outside the Beltway' as opposed to 'real. I suppose it's real enough to those who live there, although the gods know it looks pretty SURreal to those of us who don't...:shrug:


I miss Dan Froomkin...he was the only reason I ever read the WaPo on-line...
that, and email is the only way I can get the delightful, brilliant, witty, trenchant Ann Telanes :patriot: videos to play properly...:applause:


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