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January 28, 2006

Jim VandeHei, the Nightclub Years

by AltHippo @ 4:39 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Jim’s latest tickled my funny bone. I’m referring of course to his page A6 oped Why Bloggers Make Me Wet My Pants.

Charged, hyperbolic, subjective language has always made me giggle. Take this, for instance:

These activists — spearheaded by battle-ready bloggers and making their influence felt through relentless e-mail campaigns — have denounced what they regard as a flaccid Democratic response to the Supreme Court fight, President Bush’s upcoming State of the Union address and the Iraq war. In every case, they have portrayed party leaders as gutless sellouts.

On the “flaccid Democratic reponse” line, I was waiting to see if he’d work in a Boehner pun. Gotta love the opeds.

Oh, wait. That wasn’t an oped. That was in the “news” section. Strange, that. I distinctly remember Ombduslican Howell saying that Froomkin’s “White House Briefing” was an opinion piece, and should be labelled as such.

Ah, here we go:

Political reporters at The Post don’t like WPNI columnist Dan Froomkin’s “White House Briefing,” which is highly opinionated and liberal. They’re afraid that some readers think that Froomkin is a Post White House reporter.

I think it’s great that Jim is stepping out with the old VandeHei wit. But, if he wants to do opinion stuff, then that’s the page where it should go. Maybe he could do a column called “Stuff My Wife Told Me After Getting Off the Phone With Karl.”

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