Several of you called “Inside Baseball” regarding my post a little bit ago that included Ezra Klein’s tweet that the Lieberman office is calling around asking about him, but failing to call him directly. That made me state “With Wittmann sniffing around Ezra, you have to wonder how long is before Hiatt has Klein working alongside Froomkin at the HuffPo.”
I really didn’t think this was that inside baseball, because I am sure most of you know what happened to Froomkin. Having said that, I guess many of you don’t realize what a perilous position a young guy like Ezra is currently in. Let me run it down (at least as I see it):
A few things about Lieberman’s office calling around asking about Ezra:
1.) Wittmann is a former Trotskyite, just like half the rest of the current neocon establishment. You know all that shit the wingnuts state about Saul Alinsky and the Obama WH following rules for radicals– it is nonsense, of course- but for the neocons, it isn’t. They follow those rules. See anyone who opposed the Iraq War, see anyone who stands up to the AIPAC lobby, etc. These guys would think nothing of exerting a little pressure, snuffing Ezra’s job, which would both silence a critic and send a message.
2.) Ezra is young and has, compared to his enemies, very few ties to the DC establishment. Sure, he has the TAPPED crowd and Podesta at ThinkProgress, but that is about it, and he is railing against some entrenched interests. Not only entrenched big money like the insurance and pharm and health industry, but the whole establishment. Wittmann has ties to the Christian Coalition, worked for John McCain, the DLC, Lieberman has deep ties, etc. The entire premise of his blog was to mock the “nutroots,” and our paths crossed politically as I was moving to the left and he was moving to the right.
3.) Ezra has already made enemies with folks that Lieberman and Wittman are tied to in one way or another. The goon squads at the Weekly Standard and Commentary hate him because Ezra has made remarks regarding Israel that fall out of line with what they want, Marty Peretz refers to Ezra as the “juice box mafia” and would not think twice about destroying him, Micky Kaus hates him because he wasn’t invited to the Journolist and even has a tag for the juicebox mafia, and I wouldn’t be shocked to hear them step up the rhetoric in the next couple of weeks, calling him a self-hating Jew, etc.
4.) He has no left flank to defend him. The idiot purists in the progressive wing have been savaging him daily on their blogs. Hell, we’ve all read the “progressive” blogs call him the “”>village scribe” or accused him of going native on a daily basis, and others have been launching similar attacks at him for months.
When you put it all together, what Ezra is doing takes balls. You may not agree with him all the time, but he has shown more nuts in a few months than 99% of the people who occupy positions in our media. I’ll quite frankly be shocked to see him there for more than a few more months. He is making all the right enemies, yet the folks who should be his friends are too stupid to support him. His dust up with Charlie Lane today was another example of the kind of thing we should all be standing up and cheering. That took balls.
You can count me pretty solidly in the pro-Ezra Klein camp.
General Winfield Stuck
Thank you!!
Comrade Mary
Yay! Thanks for dragging this to the front page. You might want to tweak paras 2 and 3 for a little redundancy, but otherwise, this is note perfect.
God damn, I’m going to link this everywhere I can think of.
DCPlod
A-goddamn-men.
TD
Truth
Lee Hartmann
Word.
aimai
Sure, lots of bloggers and commenters on the left think Ezra’s a little callow and conventional to be considered a standard bearer–but I’m not sure how even they could be considered to be “supporting” or “not supporting” him. I mean, will page clicks save Ezra when the establishment knives are out for him? To paraphrase someone “where are (the left’s) battallions in this fight?” I mean, Podesta et al have more connections to establishment money than any blog commenter who doesn’t think that Ezra is “all that.”
Still, I agree that Ezra should be supported, whatever that means.
aimai
Brian J
Jesus Christ, he’s not about to be executed. Unless my sour mood and messed up state of mind is clouding my judgment, the tone in your post is so absurdly paranoid, it’s almost as if you were trying to spoof someone.
Don’t get me wrong: from what I can tell (I don’t read him that muh these days, for some stupid reasons, none of them about his quality), he’s doing a lot of good work in beating back the nonsense from the other side. He’s definitely worth supporting. But while guys like Hiatt may be dangerous, but they aren’t the mafia. Even if they are as powerful as you seem to indicate they are, I think he’ll be fine in the end. He’s got talent. As long as there are some organizations that respect that, he’ll find somewhere to work.
calipygian
So Marty calls Ackerman dumb (a brazen, bald lie) and then goes on to apologize for employing him for several years.
What does that say about Marty’s intelligence and judgment that he employed a guy he thought was dumb and produced trash?
jl
Lieberman, Nelson, Conrad and the corporate lackey crowd are cowards and liars. If they rule us, then political scum rules us.
If Lieberman is calling around behind peoples’ back in order to take care of troublesome people, that is no surprise.
Lieberman lies whenever he opens his mouth, which is standard operating procedure among his corporate flunky crowd.
I remember him complaining that people who opposed his position on health care reform were not willing to confront him, and debate the issues.
I saw a clip last week were some one (Mike Stark?) aked him if he was willing to debate his position and Lieberman was all like “great”. When he was told that Rachel Maddow had invited him onto her show and he had not responded, Lieberman’s tone suddenly changed. He said something like: Oh dear, she has a “point of view”, I think the Senate floor is where these things should be debated and settled.
All the same with these scum. If you were a prominent journalist who went after Conrad for not understanding Reid’s book, I doubt he would debate you (what? address you, a mere serve, subject, and servile chump money pump?), instead he would ignore, or try some sneaking crud move to shut you up.
El Cid
So, do we just post comments on here saying “I SUPPORT EZRA!”? Okay, but does this help?
dmsilev
Ezra is one of the (sadly) rare political-media types who both thoroughly understands his subject area and is pretty good about communicating that knowledge. That, alone, makes him worth defending. Whether that defense will make any difference pro/con is, as aimai notes, very much in doubt. Being very popular with readers didn’t save Fromkin, for instance.
-dms
John Cole
@Brian J: Ok. In the next 72 hours when Lieberman or one of his Lackey’s is given premium Op-ed space to defend his reversal on the HCR bill and directly attacks Ezra, will you see the forest and the trees? Cuz you know it is going to happen.
tony frost
Hear, hear!
General Winfield Stuck
I would say that no more, no less than anything else we write about here.
calipygian
Let me point you to something Conor Friedorsdorf wrote recently at The American Scene.
The subtext of the post, which I found to be more important than the subject of the post itself, is that there is a JV Village in the making:
The rest of the post goes on about how the inside the Beltway blogosphere is really a young old boys club of guys writing smack on the internet and then getting beers at the Brickskeller before cruising for tail at Hawks and Doves.
Ezra is risking turning himself into a social pariah, which is a terrible place to be if you are a young up and comer in DC.
One of the things about the Juice Box Mafia (Juice? Jews? Get it?) is that there is a parallel, young Jewish group called jokingly called Jews for Freedom or some such bullshit consisting of the execrable Michael Goldfarb, Satan’s Stenographer Eli Lake and others too obscure and stupid to mention.
But, its all part of that same, young Capital Hill/K-Street/Columbia Heights blogging clique.
General Winfield Stuck
And there be a relative term, if ever there was one.
John Cole
@Brian J: I linked every god damned thing that has happened. Being aware of history is “absurdly paranoid?”
Notorious P.A.T.
Why not recap what happened to Froomkin, too?
(sorry John, just don’t want you to have another one of those “cant’ think of anything to talk about” nights).
marcopolo
hear, hear!
I don’t always agree with what Ezra writes but he doesn’t seem to pull punches, and he is fairly clear about where he is coming from which is more than you can say about a lot of the folks doing the punditry gig and what you really need to know when you are reading them…and as I am bighearted I will forgive him for both being able to run laps around my brain with his lobes tied together and young and good looking…basterd
let’s hope this thread is wrong about his future
tde
I have no idea what you are talking about.
And I read, like, a lot of blogs and stuff.
Notorious P.A.T.
Well, Hiatt is Klein’s boss, and could probably pink-slip him at any time.
Gringo Starr
That’s funny. In your link to a Google search for people calling him a “village scribe”, I see a few people saying complimentary things about him, and, um, nobody actually calling him that. Are you arguing with the imaginary leftists in your head again?
John Cole
@tde: I just give up.
calipygian
@tde: Froomkin was the Washington Posts most liberal and smartest writers, even though he was relegated to the internet edition, where he drew more traffic than anywhere else on the WaPo site outside of weather, movies and sports.
Despite the fact he had the most eyeballs of any opinion writer at the Post, he was fired and got hired on at Huff Po.
Jay B.
At times like this, when all he’s doing is giving an opinion that lies square in the middle of kinda-passionate and mostly sensible, there is literally no downside for a high-profile guy like Klein to really go after it and expose the Post, the Lieberman clique and all the other know-nothings who have positively poisoned rational thought.
Klein will be a hero — a fucking hero! — if he goes after all the mendacious fuckers who have lied their way across the WaPo pages over the past five years. Froomkin did it and he was rewarded too. But he was an old-school kind of journalist.
Klein, being a long-time fixture of the Web, could legitimize the medium over the Villager’s creation once and for all.
If telling a little truth here with a little passion has caused so many knickers to twist, he should amplify it. It’s not a matter of “having his back”, it’s a matter, once and for all, of someone having the stage — and a backbone. He might be in the exact right place at the right time.
neff
@Notorious P.A.T.: Actually Ezra Klein works as an economics writer rather than under the op-ed department so Hiatt’s not actually directly over him.
BombIranForChrist
I agree 100%., John.
Keith G
I am Ezra Klein.
DCPlod
@Brian J:
God Almighty – have you been asleep for the last 8 years? People like Hiatt are what enabled and kept Bush/Cheney in power, and are STILL misinforming the public today – case in point, he published a nonsensical, ignorant and flat out lying op-ed by Sarah Palin on climate change. But you’re right, he’s not like the Mafia. No, he helped cause 100 times the damage to America that an organized crime syndicate could ever hope to do.
And pick up a WaPo, or indeed any other nationally read paper sometime. You can count the number of truly liberal voices on the fingers of one hand. And most media outlets don’t want talent, they want right-leaning stenographers to concern troll Obama and kiss up to Republicans.
OK, rant over. Needed to get that off my chest.
General Winfield Stuck
I do this many times, every day.
Brian J
@John Cole:
No, being aware of history isn’t absurdly paranoid. I’m not saying they are going to refuse to go after him. Like you, I expect them to. I’m just saying that, regardless of how damaging it may be to his career in the short run, he’ll be fine in the long run. Even if he doesn’t end up working for a traditional outfit like The Post for much longer, some organization will snap him up. Of course, if The Huffington Post and other, newer media venues start to take orders from the same people you are describing, we’re in trouble, but I don’t see that happening.
@calipygian:
Once again, I think he’ll be okay in the long run, even if he runs into some trouble in the short run.
John Cole
@Gringo Starr: Just go to Talk Left and do a search for Ezra. Village Wonk shows up a good deal, too.
Libby
I’m as proud of Ezra Klein today as I would be if he was my own son. I agree John, he put himself in great peril today.
I believe the only thing that can save him is traffic. This link from you will certainly advance that. Anyone who wants to help should click on his posts today — repeatedly.
Unabogie
I love Ezra and consider him required daily reading. His knowledge of healthcare policy dwarfs that of most people on the left deriding him.
If I want to know the real world consequences of the proposed amendments, I sure as hell don’t read Jane Hamsher. And Chuck Lane can kindly suck a chainsaw.
Brian J
@DCPlod:
No, I haven’t been asleep. Like you, I’ve seen the birth of new outlets where a talented young guy can work even if he’s cast aside by an older forum. Fred Hiatt may be powerful even beyond the confines of The Post, but he and others aren’t the only people in the game these days.
Notorious P.A.T.
Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing that out.
tde
@calipygian – thanks – that’s the piece of info I missed
@JohnCole – Chin up, I’d expect more resilience from a longtime Mountaineer fan.
bemused
@dmsilev:
“Ezra thoroughly understands his subject area and is pretty good at communicating that knowledge”. That alone makes him worth a good thrashing by the american media news behemoths. They can’t have any of those type of writers around for too long.
J.W. Hamner
I’m pretty sure Ezra will land on his feet even if they push him out of the WaPo for offending the right people… but I agree that he deserves more support than he gets these days. I know True Believers excommunicate anyone with temerity to state that healthcare reform is bigger than the public option… but hopefully they realize his is a voice worth having in the debate.
General Winfield Stuck
@Brian J:
Look at it this way Brian. We spend a large amount of time bashing the media on BJ, possibly sometimes to a fault.
I look at it as going full circle and actually supporting what we are for.
valdivia
Hell yeah! I will also say that unlike a lot of pontificators Ezra is super wonky and spends time reading the bills he writes about, and follows this process very closely. Makes the debate much richer with his work.
Brian J
@J.W. Hamner:
I’m pretty sure Ezra will land on his feet even if they push him out of the WaPo for offending the right people
John Cole
Oh, well. If he lands on his feet it is ok if we lose his voice in a major media outlet.
/slitswrists
jl
I have no idea how serious any campaign to shut of Ezra Klein is. I have no idea how the WaPol could seriously consider firing him or hiding him without understanding that such a move would completely gut whatever shred of a journalistic reputation they have left.
It does seem to me that the federal US government we see, and the journalistic establishment we see has become a charade, a 100% Kabuki political theatre. Behind this rotten facade, we see signs of high palace intrique.
I wonder if this is how things looked like to the serfs, and then the proletariate worker comrades in Russia? And I guess to the lucky duckies in Russia today, trying to guess the next move of the oligarchs.
mistersnrub
If WaPo axes Ezra, what little credibility they have left is kaput. After what went down with Froomkin, the internets would go nuts.
jl
@John Cole: Please consult Tunch before you do that. You need to be fortified by some Tunchforce to keep you going. Tunch will probably try to kill you again, but overlook that part, it is just his way. I assure you it means nothing.
BFR
@John Cole:
Right, because they’d NEVER fire him if it turned out that he’s quite popular. I’m sure Dan Froomkin and Phil Donahue would totally agree with you.
kay
His defense of the Lieberman column is very good. I don’t know what they do with that.
Ninety nine percent of the stuff that comes out of pundits and DC is just deeply cynical.
Maybe an earnest defense like this will throw them for a loop.
It’s not how they operate.
calipygian
@jl: If you want to see how Lucky Duckies fair in Russia, Google Pikalevo.
Pikalevo is a one industry, Soviet monstrosity of a town whose one industry was privatised and sold to an oligarch. The oligarch, being a good capitalist, closed the factory because no one was buying what it was producing.
Well, that was politically dicey, because not only did the factory employ the whole town (thousands of people), it also provided electricity, steam heat, hot water, essential services, etc.
So, the population mass protested and demanded that
the Daddy TsarPutin come in and rescue them, like a Fairy Godfather.And Putin did.
He berated the oligarch live on TV and made him sign an agreement to open everything back up. He even snapped at the oligarch and ordered the oligarch to give him (Putin) back his pen.
And they all lived happily ever after….
Steve Balboni
Shorter tde,
Martin
Couldn’t have worked a ‘Better than Ezra’ reference into the title?
Anyway, Ezra will be fine even without WaPo. The real question is for how long WaPo will be fine without people like Ezra.
jl
Keep in mind that Ezra Klein’s fate (as Froomkin’s fate) means nothing at all in terms of what will happen in the short and even medium run.
As the High Krug pointed out this morning in the NYT, only the naive believe evidence, information and rational argument mean anything to our overlords. Power and money, and most the absolutly petty vanity disguised as half-assed dipshit honor, mean everything; evidence, rationale argument and reasonings and decent feelings for the welfare of humankind mean nothing.
That has been demonstrated over and over again in the health care reform debacle.
People like Froomkin and Klein are important to keep good information and analysis flowing to those among the public who still believe in old fasthioned virtues of trying to stay informed (whether you agree with everything they say or not).
Chuck Butcher
@John Cole:
Please don’t. But tell me how I manage to support Ezra without supporting his birdcage liner paper? I’d be happy to but I no longer subscribe to that rag and won’t.
Martin
@Chuck Butcher:
I think the answer is to get him fired at WaPo and hired at a paper worth subscribing to. Somehow that seems at odds with Cole’s concerns.
jibeaux
@Steve Balboni:
Oh, he’s not gonna get that one.
I adore Ezra. Wonky, cute, young, he cooks, got some good eMusic recommendations and an awesome video of a kid playing the ukelele. Read him daily.
General Winfield Stuck
@jl:
I don’t see it as a debacle, at least not yet. I see it as a vibrant democracy with the requisite amount of cacophony for sweeping change for a highly important issue to society.
Debacle will only apply when, and if it fails.
Violet
Thanks for posting this. I’ll be sure to click on Ezra’s columns just in case that might help. I’ve avoided reading him since he went to WaPo because I can’t stand reading that rag. I’ll try to hold my nose and do it anyway because this is a good cause.
Ezra is very brave.
kay
Just please don’t tell me I’m going to hear media natter on and on about how Lieberman is a victim.
I know they loathe covering health care, or sick people, or uninsured people, or….numbers but I really can’t bear Joe Lieberman moping around for a week.
BFR
@Chuck Butcher:
It’s not just that it’s birdcage liner paper. I doubt that the people running the show at WaPo are incompetent – I think they realize they’re in a dying industry (I’m guessing they operate at a loss), so they’ve hit on this business model where they trot out a liberal or two to create mainstream legitimacy that they can then sell to wingnuts.
So when you “support” Ezra at WaPo, you’re enabling them to run more Sarah Palin op-eds.
Just Some Fuckhead
Is this Meth Monday or what??
Too weird.
valdivia
@kay:
apparently the Ap is running an article on his flip flop using the video that Greg Sargent posted on his blog. The cravenness narrative may be taking hold a bit which is why Lieberman is his crew worrying about Ezra.
Xanthippas
I believe some idiot left a comment on this blog not long ago that Ezra was “part of the problem” because he was working for those douches at the Washington Post. I suppose that commentator will be happy when this problem is “solved” and he can go back to unreservedly supporting Ezra Klein because Klein is writing at left-wing online magazines nobody in D.C. gives a shit about.
Libby
Not if you only click on Ezra and don’t click on Sarah and her ilk. I can’t think of a clearer way to send the message than that.
Xanthippas
You guys realize that they do more than print op-eds at the Post right? Dana Priest alone justifies that paper.
BFR
@Xanthippas:
That was me. My point is and was that the WaPo is not interested in journalism anymore. They’re using Klein (and Froomkin before him) to make themselves look more relevant. That increases the circulation of the paper which they then use to amplify the voices of Krauthammer, Will, etc.
It’s a rigged game. If they fire Ezra, then they’ll replace him with some other token liberal until they start causing problems and then they’ll replace the next guy.
Kryptik
@Xanthippas:
Sadly, Dana Priest is quickly counteracted by the whole of the Op-Ed board, Shalaigh Murray, Howie Kurtz, Frank Ahrens…well, the point is that the actual news arm of the Post is quickly being as politicized as Hiatt’s made the Op-Ed board.
Comrade Mary
Jesus tapdancing Christ. Tweety has a guest on pointing out that Ezra was one of the people pointing out Lieberman’s perfidy and incoherence, and Tweety jumped in to credit LUKE THUMBSUCKING RUSSERT with digging up that video of Lieberman contradicting himself three months ago on Medicare. (Not that Ezra dug up that video — it was Greg Sargent — but still: the villagers honour their heirs, even if they DIG THINGS UP by fucking browsing blogs. FUCK.)
Corey
@Comrade Mary:
Greg Sargent works for the Post too.
Comrade Mary
That’s interesting, but not really to my point. Ezra is a real journalist. Greg is a real journalist. Luke? Not so much. But somehow Tweety could not get the words out fast enough to give that candy-cane sucker unearned credit.
mcd
If you want to support Ezra, the best thing to do is get on the telephone. Call up Marcus Brauchli’s office or Katharine Weymouth’s office and tell them what you think.
That’s what the Teabaggers do.
One phone call is worth about 50 emails. It’s effective.
P.S. While you’re at it, tell ’em: Up or down vote on health care.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Always repeat.
DougJ
If they fire Ezra, then they’ll replace him with some other token liberal until they start causing problems and then they’ll replace the next guy.
I know what you’re saying, but I don’t agree. I think that if they fire Ezra, it will be a coup for teh left. I think they’ll do it anyway, because they’re not about right or left, they’re about fluffing themselves.
Comrade Mary
OK, Ezra’s on Countdown NOW …
bayville
I support Ezra.
But then again I’d also support Bernie Madoff and Ivan Boesky in a pissing match against colossal terds Whittman and Lieberman.
BFR
@DougJ:
The only way that it’s a coup for the left is if it makes it clear that they’ve (the WaPo that is) chucked journalistic ethics out the window, which I think we’ve known for some time. Maybe a few more people get clued in, but not that many. This whole thing isn’t going to stop until the business shuts down ala the Washington Times.
dSquib
I’m pleased that Ezra did this, and now that FINALLY someone within “the establishment” is calling Lieberman on his bullshit instead of outright enabling him, I don’t quite mind hearing about him so much. It was the total helplessness that was getting at me with regards Lieberman, that nobody that could hurt him ever would, combined with the smarm and false posturing. It’s not a huge blow, but it’s a start.
I also don’t know how I can “support” Ezra except in spirit, and checking out his blog once in a while. And following him on Twitter? I’m never giving any money to the Kaplan Test Prep Daily.
Ian
@Keith G:
We are all Ezra Klein today.
Bobby Thomson
Kaplan Daily sure as hell ain’t gonna fire Klein because the hippies don’t like him. They’ll fire him in a heartbeat for going after Hiatt’s friends, but then, that’s got nothing to do with the hippies, does it?
As Digby said about the public option, the best way for the left to support Klein is not to praise him. But so long as he’s pissing on Hiatt, there’s not much chance of that.
MNPundit
Not a fan of Ezra. In the aftermath of 2004 his first words? He blamed his own demographic, my demographic, for losing the election. No sympathy from me though I haven’t savaged him from the left.
DaveInOz
I can honestly say that I have not clicked on a link to the Washington Post since Froomkin left.
My three must reads of the day were BJ, Sully and Froomkin (though not necessarily in that order). Since the Post has dumbed down to compete with the Washington Times I didn’t see why my clicks should help them earn advertising revenue.
trollhattan
Whatever fate awaits Klein he has my support and enduring affection, if just for his dissection of McMegan this summer. All that was left was bones and a kitchen gadget shopping list.
Lieberman’s a cancer.
Steeplejack
@tde:
Dude, are you familiar with the Google at all? I just took 10 seconds and searched on “Hiatt Froomkin,” and three of the top four results were stories about Froomkin’s departure from the Post. One of them is even a Wonkette post for the big-words-challenged.
Just trying to help you avoid a Cole neck punch here.
growingdaisies
Ezra is my go-to person on health care reform. I’ve been reading him since he was at the Prospect. He’s smart, an excellent writer, entertaining and honest.
If you don’t read his blog, I highly recommend checking it out. I just wanted to second everything John said about him.
oh really
Integrity is a much more admirable quality and in much shorter supply in this country.
Joe Buck
Ezra has been criticized, properly in my view, because he’s been saying for quite a while that the public option isn’t particularly important and being willing to trade it away for a bill. However, I applaud him for going after Lieberman for his dishonesty.
John, I think you’re wrong for attacking the left blogs for going after Ezra in the past, or for thinking that this precludes supporting him now.
Joe Buck
Another thing, if the Post fires Ezra (which I doubt) he’ll land elsewhere and it will bring more discredit on the Post than on him. I often disagree with him but he’s a smart guy.
bend
Inspired by this post,I’ve made a Facebook group: If WaPo Froomkins Ezra Klein, I’ll Work to Hasten Its Inevitable Demise”
amk
Hear, Hear.
You might as well been talking about another guy in the WH with daggers drawn all around him.
matt
He is suggesting we eat a shit sandwich and call it ice cream…that the people who betrayed us once wouldn’t dream of doing it again! I heard enough of that…they have proven themselves toothless whores (usually the best kind) and that the most craven industry practices will be allowed to continue with a wink and a nod towards “enforcement”!
kmblue
Ezra has been supporting every weakening of the health care bill right down the line, including suggesting the public option isn’t that important (just like Obama). His pathetic stab at Lieberman the scumbag is meaningless. Let him protect himself.
NorthernMNer
Is there a way we can help Ezra? Besides reading his posts? Any way to help drive more traffic to his site?
And Ezra is a realist, and knows that reform is a process, people. Remember, the idea that Democrats have 60 votes isn’t a reality when you factor out Lieberman and the constantly absent Byrd.
Paul in KY
Riffing off Spartacus:
‘I am Ezra Klein’
Quicksand
Hmm, what color text should we be using to support Ezra?
Lex
@Brian J:
Two words, Brian: Dan Froomkin.
Lex
@Jay B.:
Ayup. Turn it up to 11. 12, even.
Lex
@Joe Buck:
Unfortunately, it really won’t because everyone who’s paying attention already discredits the Post, so to speak.