Seems About Right
By Your new Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, ladies and gentlemen:
- Regarding the “Ground Zero Mosque,” Rubin told us 3,000 Americans were killed at the Burlington Coat Factory at West Broadway and Park Place, and that by supporting it the Left was “advertising its own intellectual crack-up and unfitness to govern.”
- When Mel Gibson was famously recorded screaming at his girlfriend to blow him, Rubin said, “by golly, it sounds like… well, Obama.”
- During last summer’s flotilla massacre, Rubin created a forgiving new definition for self-defense: “When the Israeli commandos were set upon as they were lowered from a helicopter, they acted to defend themselves.” (That’s why, if armed men break into your home and you shoot them, they walk and you go to jail, like in Charles Bronson movies.)
- And there’s always the old Obama-isn’t-“down-to-earth”-if-you-know-what-I-mean-(pushes-in-nose) schtick.
The most important thing to remember, if you want to be taken seriously, is that she and Ezra Klein are precise equivalents. No, scratch that: the Post would have to hire 20 Rubins as bloggers to go along with the innumerable Rubins on their op-ed page to balance out one Klein.
Also, this blog is serious in its threat to deploy images of Kip Winger until the Editors start blogging again.