Posted on 02/25/2017 11:33:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I know you were all terribly worried about whether or not long time Clintonite and secret Illuminati member John Podesta was going to be able to find a new job after the implosion of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Fear not! Turns out that he’s landed himself a gig writing political analysis columns for the Washington Post. (The Hill)
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaign chairman, has joined The Washington Post as a contributing columnist, according to a Thursday announcement by the paper.
“No one knows more about how Washington works, how the White House operates, and how policy ideas are translated into reality than John Podesta,” said the Post’s editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, in a statement.
“His long experience in Congress, inside two Democratic White Houses and on the front lines of numerous presidential campaigns, will offer readers vital insight into Washington and politics at the start of a new era.”
I’m a little bit lost at the moment. Part of me wants to start pulling my hair out and declaring that this is simply too unbelievable to be a real story. But there’s a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that I should’ve already realized this is simply business as usual. Still, at what point did the train go so badly off the rails that we arrived at this juncture?
It’s not a question of whether or not the Washington Post should be ready, willing and able to hire some more distinctly liberal voices as editorial columnists. That’s pretty much a given. They already have a full stable of them on the payroll but there’s always room for more. Yes, I’m sure there are those of us who would like to see them investing their time and money into landing a few more prominent conservative voices just for balance. This is particularly true since their Right Turn blog is still being run by someone so deeply trapped in Trump Derangement Syndrome that many of the columns are indistinguishable from those written by the usual Democratic cheerleaders.
But even if they were going to add another left-side voice, I just can’t get over the fact that it turned out to be John Podesta. Seriously? Am I the only one who remembers when a bunch of his emails wound up being leaked to the public? Some of them opened up a whole new chapter in the ongoing discussion over how closely the mainstream media is “embedded” (or should we just say in bed) with political campaigns. Talk about picking winners and losers… Podesta seemed to be a master of it.
Having someone make an informed, well written argument in favor of liberal causes is perfectly acceptable for any newspaper. (Though it would be nice if the numbers from the left and right sides were a bit closer to equal.) But John Podesta isn’t even that consistently liberal. He actually caused no end of problems for Hillary Clinton for some of his less charitable writings and positions. He was always more of a political operative than an analyst and has buttered his bread for decades by keeping his star hitched to the Clintons’ wagon.
Still, the guy deserves to earn a living like anybody else. And if this is what the Washington Post has decided to do I guess it’s on them.
Progs stick together like doodie balls.
Well, I guess he knows all the best places in town to buy pizza.
Is this the paper Amazon guy owns?
This should make him easy to find when the FBI comes to get him.
Sounds like a good fit for the king of all douche nozzles.
Why the surprise ?
Like Pedosta, the WP is an agent of seditious insurrection.
Why not ? Podesta is as completely lacking a moral compass as his new boss. Podesta and the Washington Post are a perfect marriage.
meet the new boss- same as the old boss
Podesta will be the Post’s food critic for all DC pizza places.
Oh Boy! (Pun intended )
Looking back into Comet Pizza investigation
Schweizer explained the “deep ties” the Clintons have to Russia, specifically how in 2010 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the sale and transfer of 20% of U.S. uranium output to the Russian government ...”
Why does this news make me laugh so hard I almost wrecked my keyboard with coffee?
Podesta and the Post, a perfect match, . may they slide downhill together in a veritable avalanche of FakeNews
most importantly, Podesta is lacking a job
Yes.
How is it that this HotAir article on Podesta completely ignores the Podesta-Hillary-Obama-Russia-Putin connection? Even the full piece at the link doesn’t mention it.
In the Food Section, expertise on #Pizzerias?
So what are they going to do when they find out that he doesnt have any insiders to feed him information.
His actions and those of his ilk are what we have been mislead from for the past 8+ years.
This is the credibility of the modern media. Hiring the crook that used to pay you to print his lies and use you for his gain.
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