Editor&Publisher lampoons WP's Libby editorial as Jon Stewart-Jason Jones exchange

[DeepModem Mom]

'Post' Editorial on Libby: The 'Daily Show' Version
The Washington Post's reaction to the CIA leak case verdict -- attacking the prosecutor and Joseph Wilson as much as the convicted felon-- actually has some entertainment value when you bring in Jon Stewart and Jason Jones.

By Greg Mitchell

(March 11, 2007) -- By now, nearly four years into the Iraq war and related controversies, one is tempted to simply disregard The Washington Post editorial page, and some of its regular columnists, on those matters: They have been so wrong on nearly everything for so long. The paper's news pages regularly contradict and embarrass some of the opinion writers with those stubborn things called "facts," so you might wisely spend all of your time there.

But rather than have all that copy and hard work on the opinion page go to waste, I suggest that you try to imagine any Iraq-related editorial in the Post as a typical exchange between Jon Stewart and an out-to-lunch "correspondent" on The Daily Show.

Take the Post’s editorial last week calling the Libby case a “pointless Washington scandal.” It lamented that the case was brought in the first place. Putting that editorial into a Daily Show routine it might go something like this. Nearly all of the statements by correspondent Jason Jones come directly from the Post editorial.

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STEWART: To discuss the Libby verdict we have with us tonight Senior Leak Proliferation Correspondent, Jason Jones (applause). Jason, so they finally nailed this guy, right?...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003556750

[Senator]

1. While reading that WashedUp Post screed, it did cross my mind...

... that I'd somehow been redirected to The Onion.

But the reality that it's about terrorizing the nation with a bomb threat of "Mushroom Clouds!" kind of takes the yucks out of it.

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[TacticalPeek]

2. Eggsellent!

:kick:

[Elidor]

3. That's a devastating takedown

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The Post is such a damnable fishwrap anymore.

[NashVegas]

4. Here's The Original WaPo Editorial

Great catch by TDS, and equally great of E & P to point out where the skit came from:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602020.html

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Crisco, I think this IS the work E&P, written in the style of TDS.

Very clever of them -- and thanks for posting the WP editorial!

[NashVegas]

7. Aye

I feel silly. I went through a couple of TiVo-trashed epis looking for it :)

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Not to worry! I, for one, have done much sillier!

:)

[TahitiNut]

5. "So—forget about a pardon, and go straight to the Medal of Freedom for Scooter Libby?"

"That’s right Jon."


And thus does reality again go beyond parody in a nation gone insane.