The Wash. Post’s Jennifer Rubin Divide and the Iraq War
It is just over one week since Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma read Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel four questions suggested to him by Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin during Hagel’s confirmation hearing. The substance of the questions Inhofe delivered to Hagel in the Senate chamber — a typical Rubin laundry list of neoconservative wisdom gleaned from her January 28 post titled, “Our Dimwitted State Department” — was quickly overshadowed by the public reaction of Post senior correspondent and associate editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran. When Inhofe described Rubin’s post as “kind of an interesting article,” Chandrasekaran shot off an angry tweet. “I hate it when senators refer to WP opinion blogger posts as articles,” he growled. “@JRubinBlogger is NOT a WaPo reporter.”
That he’s right is a fortunate thing for the Post. If the daily employed Rubin to cover national security and international affairs, they’d have a bit of a Judith Miller problem. Since the Post hired Rubin in late 2010, she has routinely embarrassed the paper by putting bylines on Romney campaign press releases; endorsing blood-thirsty calls for revenge against Palestinians; and successfully experimenting with the manufacture of durable conservative fantasy narratives.
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Good article about the hack Jennifer Rubin. Worth reading in full.