April Fools’ Day can be a very dangerous holiday in some organizations.
For example, given the well-documented perversity of the Washington Post‘s op-ed pages under Fred Hiatt, it’s probably no surprise that second-tier staffers blow off steam by grumbling and making sarcastic jokes in informal lunch-room conversations.
So, it happens that yesterday, a bunch of them were sitting around on a break at a table with that morning’s Wall Street Journal — lying open to Karl Rove’s opinion piece offering unsubtle GOP-friendly suggestions to the “tea party” movement (including not forming a third party). The talk turned to how soon it would take Hiatt to ask the staff to gin up a me-too column from one of the WaPo’s ever-growing stable of former Bush administration mouthpieces.
Then, realizing it was April Fools’ Day, one of them said, “You know what would be funny? If we wrote up our own piece and put it under the name of Dan Quayle.”
“Who’s Dan Quayle?” asked one of the younger staffers.
“The 1980s prototype for Sarah Palin,” another answered. “Young, supposedly irresistible good looks, and dumber than the day is long.”
“Seriously? How dumb was he?” asked the younger staffer.
“Bill Kristol was considered his ‘brain’.”
A long pause. “Holy crap! I guess you’re right.”
“Exactly! So wouldn’t it be perfect to have a column with advice for the teabaggers from Dan Quayle — the patron saint and godfather they never knew they had?”
Unfortunately, just then Fred Hiatt walked in for a cup of coffee, overhearing the suggestion. And he thought they were serious.



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Oh, for the love of all that is holy…
Except, of course, when the surly mob descends upon Capitol Hill led by the likes of Michelle Bachmann. In that case, it is a totally vitriol-free grassroots movement aimed at protecting kittens and puppies.
That Potatoe picture is abolutely hilarious!
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Teabaggers:Dan Quayle
F’ing Retards:Rahm Emanual
“Don’t believe your lying eyes” is the message at the heart of so much GOP propaganda…
Too bad that conversation didn’t actually happen. At least it would be some explanation of Hiatt’s wankery.
ZOMG – nobody told him about Dee Dee Scozzafava!
My eyes lie compulsively. Sarah Palin is one smart chick.
Sorry Dan the Tea Baggers are Ron Paul’s and Sarah’s people but they are also the GOP’s most motivated base of voters.
They are not independent voters Dan show me any numbers to back up that even 5% of the Tea Baggers are people who voted for Obama? Or voted Green, Socialist, Commie, whatever.
The vast majority of Tea Baggers voted GOP or they staid home on election day why McCain and Sarah were not Right enough for them. Dan the Democrats were never going to get those voters.
Actually (taking “Quayle’s” argument seriously for a moment, which I actually don’t) there is no evidence that without Perot he and Poppy would have been re-elected. The Perot vote was an anti-incumbency vote as much as a anti-deficit, anti-tax vote. But it takes a very special kind of Cerberus Chairman not to see anti-incumbency staring himself in the face.
Thanks, Swopa, please bring us more insights into the “newsroom” at the WaPo0. It’s got to be a hilarious place lately: Charles Lane, Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, BillKristolnacht: so many mentors for the young up-and-comers like Ezra Klein and Dave Weigel.
That is why she is bff with buk buk bachmann.
Palin/Bachmann 2012!!!
What a victory for womens’ rights.
Teabaggers may not all be R, but that doesn’t mean that they are even remotely moderate. Many are probably “I” or “L”. Dan Quayle thinks that the reader will assume the teabaggers who are not “R” are automatically “D”. That’s how dumb Dan Quayle is.
And don’t you think it’s a Cerberus “tea”-up to help Mittens? Isn’t Mittens supposed to be the next MBA/Business preznit for these guys?
buk buk bachmann. Heh heh.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040102181_pf.html
Dan did you not notice Obama campaigned on a Public Option for Healthcare. When the Majority of people voted for him they knew what they were getting. Healthcare was a big issue in the campaign Dan it would have been hard to miss Obama’s position on that!
One can easily argue that everytime Obama has broken a campaign promise he has gone to the Right to please You Dan and thats why his polls have dropped.
and
Again Dan had Obama not tried to please you and ended the war we would be in better shape on the National Debt. Perhaps you are Mad Dan that Cerberus your old hedgefund lost 2 billion dollars on Chrysler?
Tell me how would a Republican fix the National Debt and wage two wars at the same time? This I gotta hear!
on my 15 should not be in quotes those are my words sorry.
Agreed still I doubt that they voted for Obama or any Dem. I admit maybe they voted Independent or Libertarian but they are not the margin that put Obama over the top.
As if teabaggers are out in the streets because of their shock (shock!) that Obama decided to do some kind of health reform after clearly promising to leave healthcare alone.
Now if DQ wants to argue that teabaggers are against any kind of government run social services, I would be more inclined to take him seriously. A little truth goes a long way with me.
Not even in Bizarro Cheney world could anyone seriously argue that teabaggers are O constituents.
Sadly enough Dan though a lying and stupid weasel is no better or worse than Rush, Glen, Sarah, Newt, George Will, the NeoCons Darth etc. Dan was just a man ahead of his time the first stage of the GOP deevolution.
Fred Hiatt and Dan Quayle are beyond Cheney.
Mr Potato Haid wood be ok two, he.
And they have the nerve to mock Quayle and Palin when they don’t know who Dan Quayle is?
Still pales in comparison to Dana Perino, Bush’s last press secretary, who confessed she’d never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Still my all-time favorite Quaylism:
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
You just can’t make this shit up…