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Atrios says: "Where Are All The Women Op-Ed Writers? Fred Hiatt can’t find them."
I’m no Fred Hiatt fan, but intellectual honesty compels me to defend the man against this patent falsehood.
Ladies and gentlemen, SE Cupp:
Why, from this very Sunday, February 22:
Yes, We’re Out of Power. But I’m Still Starstruck.
By S.E. CuppI admit, I was a little hurt after overhearing a recent discussion about the lack of "star power" at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Not only have I really been looking forward to CPAC, but this year I am actually on the agenda: "Book Signing: Exhibit Hall. Saturday. 12:30 pm." Tell me that doesn’t ooze glitz and glamour.
Luckily, I don’t have much of an ego about these things. But the diss did prompt me to briefly question my hipness.
See, in my world, stars don’t come any bigger than Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and Mike Pence (if there were a congressional version of Teen Beat, the Indiana congressman would be on its cover every month). Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee and John Boehner are the Jonas Brothers of conservative celebrity. And all of them will be at CPAC 2009.
Am I the only one who gets excited at the thought of a two-hour discussion on "Protecting the Secret Ballot" or "Taking Action Through Citizen-Led Reform" in the Regency Ballroom? When I see such clever lecture titles as "Will Congress Take Your Guns?" and "Are We All Socialists Now?" I start salivating. Will it? Are we? I can’t wait to find out.
You want the ladies? Fred’s got ‘em. Fresh from Tiger Beat.
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Yes.
The op ed page has really gotten embarrassing recently. It was never great under Hiatt, but now it is cringe worthy. Hiatt ran the Washington Star into the ground and now he is running the once great Washington Post into the ground. He has built an entire career around failing upwards. No wonder he likes Bush.
This is the future of the Republican party? This?
I can’t wait to see SE Cupp in a panel on women in web journalism that includes:
Jane Hamsher
Pamela Geller
Laura Flanders
SE Cupp
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Digby
Michelle Malkin
and …………?
Phrases for the party of Mark Foley to avoid include:
“Am I the only one who gets excited at the thought of…”
Hell no! The other slugs who will be there will also be sxcited. The rest of the country? Uhm, not so much…
I do look forward to snippets from the conference. As entertaining as this may be, I wouldn’t actually go to this zoo to watch the maonkey’s fling their poo, but I’ll watch from the safety of YouTube, Stewart and Colbert.
Hmmm, here is a list of female opinion writers that are all far superior to anyone currently being published by the WAPO:
Jane;
Christi;
EW;
Watertiger; and,
Digby.
Perhaps none of them would want to write for a fish-wrapper like the WAPO, but Hiatt should be calling them to find out.
Jeepers, how much does she cost to read the National Review to me?
Woody Allen’s masterpiece on this subject
I don’t think drones, ‘droids, or borg queens count.
I thought S.E Cupp was a joke until I clicked on the WaPo peice. Hilarious.
S.E. Cupp is nearly as good a name as Dirk Diggler.
LOL! One of my all time favorite Allen short stories. But, God, there were so many of them back in the day. :-)
SE Putz.
This chick likes to hunt, fish and NASCAR. She says
I hunt and fish as often as I can. Not only do I love it, but as a 20-something woman and writer in New York City, it gives me some street cred to talk about the politics of gun laws, conservation, land use, and sportsmen’s issues, which I do frequently in various publications and on television.
“Street cred” ?? Land use? Um. Yeah. Sure. People who shoot animals are always the first ones I ask about zoning issues.
No periods after the initials? Harry S Truman rip-off. Soooo Republican. No ideas of their own.
She ate the dictionary all the way up to the in, if she said integral one more time I was gonna.like.hurl.
Bathroom vlogging, is this a new thing? Oy, I’m so behind in my modern culchah. She’s Atlas without the cringe-inducing entertainment value.
I was re-reading Woody Allen’s Hasidic tales, and S.E. Cupp reminds me of the man who wails that his daughter is such a meeskeit [unattractive], you put her on a platter with herring and you can’t tell the difference, and that such a girl who looks more at home in a jar of wine sauce than a ballgown has a big problem.
It made me very happy to imagine Dixie Cupp, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, etc., in a giant jar of wine sauce. (If it were sour cream they’d be harder to see.)
Yes, and taste. Because they’re white AND sour.
Oh good lord – I tried to be fair and read her piece.
She’s really looking forward to the dishevled panhandling on corners with signs that she can’t comprehend.
Lucky for her so many are on the streets panhandling these days – if only they knew they were making memories for SE Cupp.
C Cupp? Is this a joke? Is this woman pwning everyone?
I thought she opened that video with “I’m a C-cup.” Seriously.
Pretty much what passes for journalism in the WaPoo. She sounds swoony enough to be an Ombudsperson. Can’t imagine how Dan Froomkin carries on, or why the milquetoast New York Times doesn’t poach him away.
Yes the integrality of integraliousity is very integralishess to remain integral…makes perfect sense to me.