Rubin is like Krauthammer, token Jews who must lash out at “fellow conservatives” from time to time or lose the teat offered by WaPo
You are so wise!
Yeah, Jennifer Rubin seems to be the resident dunce in the Washington Post, which maybe would be somewhat amusing except that she’s also a pompous, painfully verbose, whiny, self-important windbag whose columns are virtually unreadable. Like those insufferable people (e.g. liberal college professors) who think they’re much smarter than they actually are, and can’t stop themselves from letting the world know it. Readers from basically all sides of the political spectrum find her to be a glorified exercise in self-mocking.
Fred Hiatt and the other WaPo editors keep her and Charles Krauthammer on board because they’re cast as representatives of the “conservative” viewpoint at the paper. The editors as usual are clueless about the history of the neocons and how they have nothing at all in common with the conservative movement either historically or today, despite all their whining to the contrary. So ironically, while most of the rebukes against Rubin from readers just lead to a general eye-roll from the editors, criticisms from actual conservatives like us would get her fired, since her whole niche at the post is supposedly about “representing” us. I’ve certainly been tempted to do just that, though sometimes I wonder if Rubin’s real main value in the paper is as a sort of perverse catharsis that makes the readers feel better, publicly humiliating herself with her ritual stupidity on a regular basis.