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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 03:03 AM
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Suggested sketch for Dana Milbank
"What scenes of Washington politics would you like Dana Milbank to write about? E-mail your suggestions of people, places or events -- along with your name and hometown to Sketch@washpost.com."

How about the story of a former WH reporter, now consigned to writing Style section pieces on the political life in DC, who gets duped into thinking Democrats.com is persecuting him by some anti-semitic freeper troll. So he takes out his anger on Democrats.com--and takes advantage of his bully pulpit in one of the nation's premiere newspapers--by penning three nasty columns, accusing Democrats.com of spreading anti-Semitism and general "wingnut" paranoia. This angry sap is so blinded by the desire to take revenge on his supposed enemy that he takes cheap pot shots at the minority-party chairman of a committee convened to shed light on the illegitimacy of the majority party "president"'s war, thinking--for some idiotic reason--that the chairman is beholden to Democrats.com. The story ends when the columnist is confronted with the fact that he has been operating under totally false assumptions. It ends there because the columnist is too much of a chicken shit to admit his error and apologize. And why should he? He's got his cushy job at one of the nation's premiere newspapers, one that allows him to publish falsehoods and get away with it. And he didn't get on the wrong side of Republicans or right "wingnuts," just out-of-power lefties and truth seekers. His job, in other words, is safe.

I wonder how his conscience is....

What do you think, Dana? Is that a sketch or what?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 03:31 AM
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1. i saw that the day after he wrote that mean piece about conyers.--I
just rolled my eyeballs.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 08:54 AM
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2. Still no apology from Milbank or the Post.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 08:59 AM
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3. Bravo BurtWorm!
That's fantastic! :applause:
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