{"id":3306,"date":"2013-08-16T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2013-08-16T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:38:52","slug":"wapos-rubin-to-pexton-hahahahahahaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/16\/wapos-rubin-to-pexton-hahahahahahaha\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rubin to Pexton: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHahahahahahaha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WaPo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> ex-<\/em>Ombudsman Patrick Pexton<\/a><\/strong> had some raw advice for the publication\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new owner Jeff Bezos<\/a><\/strong> in a story<\/a> for\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Washington City Paper<\/em> this week. Among his suggestions: Fire right-wing blogger Jennifer Rubin<\/a><\/strong>. He whined about how terrible he thinks she is, and said he received more complaints about her than anyone \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what newspaper publishers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want in a writer, to make waves and increase web traffic, right?<\/p>\n

We asked for her reaction. Her response to FBDC? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hahahahahahaha.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

An excerpt from Pexton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column in WCP<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jennifer Rubin. Have Fred Hiatt, your editorial page editor\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho I like, admire, and respect\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfire opinion blogger Jennifer Rubin. Not because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conservative, but because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just plain bad. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t travel within a hundred miles of Post standards. She parrots and peddles every silly right-wing theory to come down the pike in transparent attempts to get Web hits. Her analysis of the conservative movement, which is a worthwhile and important beat that the Post should treat more seriously on its national pages, is shallow and predictable. Her columns, at best, are political pornography; they get a quick but sure rise out of the right, but you feel bad afterward.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Rubin was the No. 1 source of complaint mail about any single Post staffer while I was ombudsman, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leaving out the organized email campaigns against her by leftie groups like Media Matters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(<\/em>Note to Rubin: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always enjoyed your nerviness. To bring Media Matters into the argument\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceven while \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leaving them out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201conly muddies Pexton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s argument. They are big on email campaigns, small on thought. Of course they live to hate bloggers like you \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called breathing over at MMFA HQ.)
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WaPo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ex-Ombudsman Patrick Pexton had some raw advice for the publication\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new owner Jeff Bezos in a story for\u00c2\u00a0Washington City Paper this week. Among his suggestions: Fire right-wing blogger Jennifer Rubin. He whined about how terrible he thinks she is, and said he received more complaints about her than anyone \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what … <\/p>\n

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