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Still less risible than Mike Allan Allen!:

As the Huffington Post reports, out of the five clauses in his one-sentence report, Mike Allen makes four mistakes:

YA CAN’T MAKE IT UP – Wesley Lowrey, 23-year-old Congress/politics reporter for the WashPost, responding on CNN to suggestions that he should have obeyed police amid a riot: “[L]et me be clear about this: I have LITTLE PATIENCE for talking heads.”

(He mispelled Lowery’s name and got his age wrong, apart from the editorial misstatements about “obeying police” amid a “riot”. Even PR flacks should get the names and dates right, yes?)


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Apart from being glad you’re not Mike Allen, what’s on the agenda as this horrible week winds down?

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  2. 2.

    Violet

    This seems like an appropriate thread for this gem:

    Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday,” said, “We do have a right to be treated properly and not shabbily. If you’re going to get rid of David Gregory … then they ought to just do it. This twisting in the wind is unseemly.”

    Villagers have a right to good treatment? In the workplace? How often is this “right to be treated properly and not shabbily” discussed in relation to other people’s workplaces? Almost never? Hmmmm….

    And once again, note the concern about tone: it’s “unseemly”. Heavens to Betsy! Cover the children’s eyes! Hide your women! What will the help think?

  4. 4.

    Glocksman

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    You should show some sympathy and care for our betters.
    Shame on you.

    *Too bad we don’t have any Snark tags, because I would have used them above for the clueless.

  5. 5.

    scav

    @Violet: Imagine that, not knowing if you’ll have any work the next week, let alone what the schedule is. In Public! Horrors! Nasty Rights-abusing Free Hand.

  9. 9.

    Glocksman

    @Violet:

    Of course.
    If you or I get fired for bullshit reasons or have to work 2 jobs in order to afford a cheap apartment, they don’t give a damn.
    Yet if one of their fellow trustafarians gets shat upon, just watch the outrage.

    Fuck them.
    Schadenfreude is the way I feel when I read about shit like this.

  10. 10.

    BGinCHI

    Mike Allen, let’s take it outside, shall we?

    This mild-mannered professor has some time in his schedule to kick your ass.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    @Violet: I’m sure part of it was the concern that by firing Gregory they couldn’t be sure that in doing so he wouldn’t be likely to take a good chunk of John McCain’s ass with him, since his lips have been placed firmly there for the last 8 or so years in a kind of parasitic symbiosis…..

  14. 14.

    Glocksman

    Whatever happened to the old adage that a reporter’s job was to ‘afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted’?
    Today the majority of so called journalists subscribe to the opposite description.

  15. 15.

    scav

    @BGinCHI: BG, BG, BG, Your politeness and discretion is unwarranted, if not cruel. We want to watch, perhaps even indulge in a spot of mild-manneredness ourselves if you could bring yourself to share.

  17. 17.

    HR Progressive

    @Glocksman: This. So much this.

    Also, I am glad I grew up and stopped reading Politico for *guffaw* analysis several years ago.

    Yes, back when I had stars in my eyes, and Barack Obama had just been inaugurated, I remember reading Politico right along side various other political blogs, this one included, for opinion and analysis.

    Proof positive that you can in fact quit beltway-centric fluffery if you try.

  21. 21.

    Shana

    @SarahT: Oh my god! That video has to be the go-to for something. Come on gang, I know we can come up with the perfect circumstance. Get on it!

    Weekend plans: hosting a canvas out of my house on Saturday afternoon to help Mark Warner’s and Gerry Connoly’s campaigns. Restaurant Week dinner with hubby tomorrow night.

  22. 22.

    Turgidson

    Agenda is pretty simple:

    I’m going to continue to mostly ignore current events, which I am certain has helped greatly in lifting my recent depressive symptoms.

    I’m going to pour myself a double mint julep when I get home from work.

    If I can get rid of the remnants of a nasty and persistent cough/cold, I’m going to spend at least one afternoon this weekend on a hike in Tilden with my pup (seen in the link below, smiling for the camera), and wife, if she is feeling up to it.

    also subject to getting rid of said cough, I’m going to undertake some long-delayed garage reorganizing, etc.

    Beyond that, vegging sounds pretty good.

  23. 23.

    PsiFighter37

    Mike Allen is a living piece of shit. I wonder how he can wake up every morning, knowing how awful of a journalist/hack that he is, without wanting to commit violent acts against himself.

  24. 24.

    kc

    @Turgidson:

    I’m going to continue to mostly ignore current events,

    I’m fixing to start ignoring current events myself. Too much . . . shit.

  25. 25.

    Anonominous

    Odd how quickly things in Ferguson turned around and calmed down after a couple of white reporters got roughed up.

  28. 28.

    Ruckus

    @PsiFighter37:
    He doesn’t need to think about committing any acts of violence against himself, there seems to be a long list of people willing to do that to him.

  30. 30.

    Trentrunner

    Ok, so: Mike Allen, Chuck Todd, and Chris Wallace are on a plane going down, and there are NO parachutes.

    Not a joke, just daydreaming…

  31. 31.

    kindness

    I hardly ever take a link to Politico any longer. The comments there are bad but not as bad as The Hill. I refuse to follow links there any longer.

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Allen and VandeHeil: the two poster boys for what is wrong with journamalism in this country.

  43. 43.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Violet: That high pitched whirring sound you’re hearing? Mike, once again spinning in his grave and wondering how in the name of all that is holy he fathered that thing.

  47. 47.

    chopper

    @Violet:

    Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday,” said, “We do have a right to be treated properly and not shabbily.

    Woah, a guy from fox defending the protesters in Ferguson?! Amazing!

    If you’re going to get rid of David Gregory … then they ought to just do it. This twisting in the wind is unseemly.”

    Oh. Never mind.

  49. 49.

    Dog On Porch

    Allen and Politico are small potatoes. It’s those officials (elected and otherwise) who purportedly serve the interests of the democratic party’s rank-and-file, yet whom appear regularly on FOX, that do more to devalue honest journalism every week than a dozen Mr. Politicoze can accomplish in a year.

  53. 53.

    Glocksman

    @BGinCHI:
    It he ever visits Evanshell, don’t be surprised to read a blurb about ‘local man assaults a reporter’.
    Sadly, that would probably garner far more reportage than the disgrace in Ferguson.

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