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You are here: Home / Rahm is out to get Fred Hiatt

Rahm is out to get Fred Hiatt

by DougJ|  March 8, 20106:03 pm| 47 Comments

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That is my take away here.

I can’t easily embed links from the iPhone.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    March 8, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    Rahm out to destroy WaPo. Rahm had Massa set up to lower the bar for passing HCR.

    If only I could really believe this administration were cutthroat and competent enough for these to be true…

  2. 2.

    Warren Terra

    March 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    An html version of DougJ’s link for people to follow.

    Edited: now that I’ve read the (very brief) piece, it is essentially perfect DougJ-bait. I’m sure there are no actual dark machinations involved in these events, in the real world – the people in this administration seem neither so vindictive nor so effective – but, evil plot or no, bad things couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of people than Fred Hiatt’s enablers and most of their employees (Ezra Klein, of course, excepted).

  3. 3.

    Joseph Nobles

    March 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Well, no need for two clickable links…

    ETA: And now for actually going to the link – the Department of Education has been investigating Washington Post’s parent company and now the Dick Whisperer and other WaPo reporters are promoting Rahm-was-right stories which have the realtime effect of driving a major wedge into the Adminstration? Fred Hiatt does play to win, doesn’t he?

  4. 4.

    gbear

    March 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Here’s a click-thru version of DougJ’s link.

    edit: man, are we helpful or what?

  5. 5.

    freelancer

    March 8, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Indeed.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    March 8, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    Well, all I can say is that the WaPo is the most respectable part of that whole enterprise. Take that as you will.

  7. 7.

    Warren Terra

    March 8, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:
    @gbear:
    @freelancer:
    Indeed, indeed. And Frist! (Well, Frist link, anyway).

    I’d have put this in my comment above, as a 2nd edit, but for some reason I didn’t have permission to re-edit the comment despite there being 25 seconds still on the clock.

  8. 8.

    Kryptik

    March 8, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    So how long until Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne are shown the door as part of ‘restructuring’?

  9. 9.

    Joel

    March 8, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    I had my test prep done with a local guy. He was awesome.

    Thought about getting a job from Kaplan to supplement my income in college and couldn’t believe how little they paid. No wonder they suck.

  10. 10.

    slag

    March 8, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    @MikeJ:

    If only I could really believe this administration were cutthroat and competent enough for these to be true…

    I read the Massa stuff and thought the very same thing. Believing it would definitely make me think better of this administration.

  11. 11.

    Mike Kay

    March 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    Rahm framed Ben Roethlisberger !!!

    Roethlisberger responds: “I did not have sex with that woman! The Rahm set me up!”

  12. 12.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 8, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    Maybe we should get Rahm on Chatroulette (TDS link – I can’t believe I missed this last week.)

  13. 13.

    demkat620

    March 8, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    Would it be responsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

    Hahahaha! How will Krauthammer and Kristol make ends meet with just Foxnews paychecks?

  14. 14.

    Mike Kay

    March 8, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    OMG!

    Rahm just chased me around the gymnasium shower, NAKED, screaming at me for Not voting for pubic option. Lemme tell ya, Rahm has a hard-on for anyone who voted against it.

  15. 15.

    Max

    March 8, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    Rahm, apparently, does not sleep because he is controlling everything up and down I-95.

    Rahm should get Ari Gold to represent him so he can get better press.

  16. 16.

    Zifnab

    March 8, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Hey now, I worked for Kaplan for a summer, teaching SAT Prep to high school students. From what I saw, it wasn’t the worst business in the world, by a long shot.

    And never once did my boss or any of my coworkers piss on my shoe and tell me it was raining, right before they busted out the pom-poms for a glorious Iraq War Adventure.

  17. 17.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 8, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Rahm is nekked power

  18. 18.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 8, 2010 at 6:28 pm

    FYWP – maybe we should get Rahm on ch-a-t-r-o-u-l-e-t-t-e (TDS link from thursday – can’t believe I missed this).

  19. 19.

    Mike Kay

    March 8, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    Rahm is nekkid aggression with his hands on the leaver of power

  20. 20.

    freelancer

    March 8, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    OT –

    OMFG. Republicans decry consideration of changing divorce laws in OK, saying it’s a gubmint intrusion into our “private lives”.

    So tone deaf.

  21. 21.

    Redshift

    March 8, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    If only.

  22. 22.

    Mike Kay

    March 8, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Outgoing Rep. Eric Massa went on a rant regarding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel today during a radio interview calling him the “son of the devil’s spawn.”

    Massa (D-NY) went on to say, “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

    Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

    Massa went on to say that Emanuel would go to the Congressional gym to intimidate members of congress.

    I like this version of Rahm. And this testimony puts a lie to the conspiracy theories that Rahm didn’t want to pass the public option and that he’s soft on moderates and conservative dems.

  23. 23.

    mistermix

    March 8, 2010 at 6:48 pm

    Don’t miss the best Wonkette headline ever:

    “Eric Massa Just Got Drunk & Wanted to Screw Guys, Same As Any Man Does After Drinking”

  24. 24.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 8, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    I am continually amazed at the way Rahm has become the latter day Karl Rove, complete with his own weather machine, apparently.

  25. 25.

    shart

    March 8, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    This blog is terrible. But, it’s good for a laugh in the afternoon.

  26. 26.

    gbear

    March 8, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: You don’t need a weathermachine to know which way the wind blows.

  27. 27.

    demo woman

    March 8, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    What a difference 24 hours makes… last night some of us were staring into Clooney’s eyes, tonight were staring at … nevermind…

  28. 28.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 8, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    @demo woman: win!

  29. 29.

    dmsilev

    March 8, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    @mistermix: Josh Marshall compared the situation to this classic bit from The Onion.

    -dms

  30. 30.

    gbear

    March 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    @mistermix: That headline says way too much about my sex life. I quit drinking in 1984.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    March 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    @Mike Kay:

    I’m waiting for the 11th-dimensional conspiracy chess explanation from Greenwald or Hamsher about how this is all just a cover to make the left think that Rahm was leaning on moderates and conservatives when he was actually spending all of his time punching hippies in the face.

  32. 32.

    Tazistan Jen

    March 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    Rahm is nekked power

    Both funny and esthetically pleasing. Can’t be bad.

  33. 33.

    NovShmozKaPop

    March 8, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    I really hate to give them any more clicks but Fox has the best coverage of the Naked Shower Fight With ‘Son of the Devil’s Spawn’

    I also noticed on this page, under “Most Active In Politics”:

    N.C. Man Accused of Carving ‘Mine’ on Rape Victim
    Kentucky Student Reportedly Wrapped in Toilet Paper, Set on Fire
    6 Women Hospitalized After Botched Butt-Enhancing Procedures
    Woman Charged for Squirting Breast Milk at Deputy
    N. Korea Says It Is Ready to ‘Blow Up’ U.S.

    Presumably the Democrats are responsible for all of this.

  34. 34.

    Martin

    March 8, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    @Zifnab: SAT scores correlate to income precisely because of groups like Kaplan. Yeah, it’s a bad test, yadda, yadda, but it’s turned into a very effective way to suck money out of nervous parents.

  35. 35.

    Gwangung

    March 8, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I am continually amazed at the way Rahm has become the latter day Karl Rove, complete with his own weather machine, apparently

    I’m not. It’s part and parcel of the American tendency to reduce complex forces into simple matters of good and evil, preferably in the package of a person.

    We share much with our wingnut brethren.

  36. 36.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    March 8, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    Can I just say if Rahm wanted to chase me around a shower naked, well I might just let him catch me. I think the man is hot.

  37. 37.

    Georgia Pig

    March 8, 2010 at 7:29 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Yeah, that ‘s the Rahm I hoped we were getting, a guy who would get up in the grill of guys like Massa, naked or otherwise. Greenwald’s conspiracy theory would be that Rahm forced Massa out so that Massa would tell that story on FoxNews. More effective for the FoxNews audience than a horse’s head in Massa’s bed or some more traditional intimidation because it has homoerotic overtones (e.g., the jabbing finger). The guy is Kayser Soze.

  38. 38.

    Phoebe

    March 8, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    @Joel: I applied to work for Kaplan years ago and they turned me down for whatever reason. I ended up working for The Princeton Review, and got a very high LSAT score using their methods. All of my Kaplan experiences [as a TPR mole] confirmed my bias — they were creepy alpha-douches. This makes me happy.

  39. 39.

    Anya

    March 8, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    @Mike Kay: I am tempted to go to FDL to see how conflicted they are about this whole thing. Someone is confirming their worst believes about Rahm, yet that same someone is claiming that Rahm harassed him about not voting for the public option. What a quandary.

    What does “son of the devil’s spawn” mean? Rahm is the devil’s grandchild?

  40. 40.

    Walker

    March 8, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    Note that this is not Kaplan Test Prep they are talking about. It is Kaplan University, an “online university”. Think University of Pheonix without the quality.

    The reviews of this university are something to behold.

  41. 41.

    cat48

    March 8, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    This. Hot little ballet bod.

  42. 42.

    J. Michael Neal

    March 8, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    @gbear: That approach never worked for me. Women must be picky or something.

  43. 43.

    No Joy in Mudville

    March 8, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    I’m pretty sure if Hiatt will just hire a few more conservative columnists for the Opinion Page he can turn everything around for the Post.

  44. 44.

    tammanycall

    March 8, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    From TAP, via Yglesias: Rahm’s 2006 House recruits are no more or less conservative than the caucus as a whole.

  45. 45.

    someguy

    March 8, 2010 at 10:01 pm

    Every time some poor old politician wants to blow a staffer, we try to throw the guy out of office. Sometimes even if he’s in our own political party. Shit, this country is a tough crowd. It’s like Woodstock II when they ran out of bottled water.

  46. 46.

    J. A. Baker

    March 9, 2010 at 12:36 am

    Rahm is out to get Fred Hiatt

    Okay, Fred. Now show us on the doll where Rahm touched you.

  47. 47.

    ...now I try to be amused

    March 9, 2010 at 10:00 am

    @Mike Kay:

    I like this version of Rahm.

    Really. It reminds me of LBJ intimidating guys while sitting on the can.

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