Milbank “taken to The Post’s version of the woodshed”
By on Feb 19th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Milbank “taken to The Post’s version of the woodshed”
for joke about Cheney. “[Washington Post reporter Dana] Milbank wore hunting gear — an orange stocking cap and striped vest and gloves — on Keith Olbermann’s show Monday night…Suffice it to say that he has been taken to The Post’s version of the woodshed and told not to do that again.”
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If Scott McClellan, spokesfront for the administration, can wear an orange tie for said purpose of avoiding birdshot, it seems only right for a reporter to do the same. Maybe if the Washington Post spent more time thinking about stories than watching TV (although I think Keith’s show does the best newsreporting of all of them), they could have figured out the actual reason for the delay: Cheney gets back to the ranch and grabs for his usual support in a crisis: a drink. Now, whether he had alcohol in his blood at 5:30-5:50 as reported, he certainly had it at 7:30 or whenever the police officer showed up.
So what does this story tell us about our executive branch? We’ve got a dry drunk up top and a wet one next in line. The evangelicals who are against drinking must love this.
February 19th, 2006 at 9:45 amGood. IT was inappropriate. How is that considered objective?
February 19th, 2006 at 9:57 amRight-wing blogs?
February 19th, 2006 at 10:00 amI guess we know who Debbie listens to.
So let’s re-cap:
1) Telling a lie about a REAL corruption
scandal is not really corrected when complaints
come from left-wing blogs, but we get a “blogger
ethics panel” WRT nasty comments.
2) Dana does the same sort of joke as THE WHITE HOUSE,
but when right-wing bloggers complain, they take
Dana “to the woodshed”.
Okay I think I know understand how WaPo slants now.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/freelance+
February 19th, 2006 at 10:09 amMilbank was only trying to be safe. He wore dayglow orange so that he wouldn’t be mistaken for a quail.
Who really give a rat’s butt? How about the Washington Post focusing on Bush and Cheney’s illegal wire taps on American citizens.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:33 amYou’re right, Lee. The WaPo is afraid of their shadow these days; they’ve created their own firestorms and Howell is probably the worst person in the place of ombudsman in a long time.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:35 amOlbermann’s show is the best one on MSNBC and Milbank is an acute observer of the White House — sometimes he skews Dems and sometimes Reps — when the clowns and criminls of this administration are so prominent in the news, they are ripe for mockery.
I have felt for a long time that the conservatives are a bunch of tight-assed, narrow-minded humorless people who are great at dishing it out, but can’t take it.
WaPo won’t focus on the NSA scandal or the
February 19th, 2006 at 10:40 amAbramoff scandal because the stories go against
the “authoritarian cultist” (see Glenn Greenwald)
Bush administration and their minions.
The Cheney story breaks through the infallibility
meme and thus is dangerous to the fascists.
This is why WaPo wants to help kill the story
ASAP.
She ends with something to the effect “It all comes down to something like this should be labeled as opinion, not news”.
Who could honestly believe that Milken, in hunting gear with a suit and tie underneath making jokes is not doing an opinion appearance?
The amusing, or sickening, aspect is that the ‘ombudsman’ appears to have responded to prodding by ‘conservative bloggers’.
What about the ‘liberal bloggers’? Oh yah, she shuts down.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:41 amThis episode shows once again the hypocrisy on
February 19th, 2006 at 10:49 amthe right, e.g., Bush can joke about missing WMD
which he used to justify an evasion that has thus
far killed close to 2500 brave American soldiers
and countless, and uncounted, Iraqis, but someone
lampoons an incredibly careless event by the leader
of our country, which, by the way, shows the careless
way this administration does everything and they
complain. It is very dishonest for them to do so,
but it clearly works when you have your
own in charge of vast swaths of the media.
I was disappointed that Milbank didn’t have the perfectly coiffed hair and the chitty-chat giggly filler that we’ve come to expect from reporters on teevee. If you’re into Pulitzer award winning performances, along with running scores, like me…join me for The Tim Russert Show today…now there’s real journalism that every true blue American can get behind. I wish you libruls would calm down!
February 19th, 2006 at 11:08 amIn a totalitarian state, you do not mock the Maximum Leaders. Lucky for Mr. Milbanks that Homeland Security did not visit him and declare him an Enemy of the State.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:21 amI saw him that night,and thought it was funny. Olbermann’s show is the news but he treats news the same way he treated sports;with a sense of humor.
February 19th, 2006 at 12:33 pmGood thing he didn’t have some anti-Christian cartoons on,the Pakistan or Indonesian embassy might have been torched.
Are Muslims ever going to be other than “a silly people,a little people,barbarous and cruel” (from the movie Lawrence of Arabia)
I laughed my butt off all night thinking about that segment. It was very funny. Milbank’s appearances are always great. I suppose tomorrow she’ll write about how inappropriate it was for all the Repub trolls to post the “I’d rather hunt with Cheney than ride in a car with Kennedy” comments that were apparently mandated by the Repub talking points all last week??? Hypocrites.
February 19th, 2006 at 1:41 pmI thought Milbank’s appearance was hilarious. If Ann Coulter appeared in blackface to make fun of the Coretta Scott King funeral, she would have gotten a free pass.
You trolls need to lighten up. It was funny and very comforting to those who tire of the needless B.S. from pundits, so-called analysts and asslicking Fox slaves.
The Post needs to lighten up too. I’m sure Olbermann will have something to say about it tommorrow.
February 19th, 2006 at 4:35 pmHey Guys and Gals:
How about we send another set of e-mails to Miss. Howell again for her critical view of Dana Milbank?
Maybe she’ll actually have the patience to read them and have the intelligence to not only respond respectably, but also butt out of Mr. Milbank’s objective journalism.
February 19th, 2006 at 4:51 pmI already did JIMBO.
February 19th, 2006 at 5:12 pmLet’s watch when she shuts down the Email system again because they’re too “hot” for her.
Time to send emails to MSNBC for being stupid! Dana’s one of the good guys. People are making jokes about Cheney’s hunting “accident” like crazy, what’s the matter with Dana poking a little fun at Cheney for us? Jerks!
February 19th, 2006 at 5:13 pmCalGal- Actually it was the Washington Post who took to issue Milbank’s humorous moment on Countdown.
Best yet, send an email to the ombudsman at the Post to let her know how you feel. I’m sure she’ll react the way she did as Marie reminded us.
Marie- How many e-mails do you think it’ll take before Miss. Howell chickens and shuts us out again?
February 19th, 2006 at 6:26 pmWouldn’t you think two of the main papers of the US (WaPo, NYT)would be careful about doing the work of the White House and censoring all opposition? The NYT now makes one pay $50 a year to read their op-eds, and WaPo has an incompetent as ombudsman, who can’t take the heat when she screws up and earns criticism.
February 19th, 2006 at 7:16 pmThomas Jefferson spoke of the necessity of the press in a democracy, lest the public be uninformed of the truth–today we have an acquiescent and oft-times cheerleading press, bought and paid for prostitutes for the White House.
I hope thousands write to Howell – she needs to squirm and be uncomfortable — and then she should be fired.
Journalists write the news.
Opinion-writers give ‘their take’ on the news.
I defy anyone to go through Milbank’s recent work — which I love precisly for ‘his take’ — and tell me that he is a straight news reporter.
The Post used to get around this problem by labelling things “news analysis.” Now, they just wrap a box around it in the print version and assume people will know the difference.
I think that the people who post and criticize Howell should stop and realize that she is actually shaking things up at the Post. Most ombudspeople (is that a word?) mail it in week after week, with things like “Why was this story under the fold?” Or like the NYTimes had a few months ago “What Are Our Readers Like?” Yawn.
The points about Bush’s ‘jokes’ and McClellan’s fashion jokes are well taken, but just because people in the WH have little to no respect of the serious nature of WMDs and gun-fire, should the journalists take similarly misguided potshots?
February 20th, 2006 at 12:11 pm