This Job Requires Mendacity, Leavened with Incompetence

A new term needs to be coined to describe Jennifer Rubin’s tenure at the Washington Post, because “embarrassment” just don’t cover it:

So yeah, I can see why you’d leak your complaints about this to Jennifer Rubin at theWashington Post.  Rubin might have her flaws, but if she’s proven anything this election cycle, it’s that she’s a reliable stenographer for the Mitt Romney campaign.

Here’s the thing, though — if you’re gonna leak to Rubin, I think you’re also gonna have to do her homework for her.  Rubin has been a bit sloppy as of late in her “Right Turn” posts, trivial stuff like confusing “Third Way” with “Third Wave.”

With the Zoellick post she just cut and pasted wrote up, however, I think she’s gone from trivial mistakes to out-and-out incompetency and/or lying….

…either Rubin didn’t bother reading the embedded link you provided her, or she didn’t read the embedded link at Zoellick’s Wikipedia entry… or she didn’t care.  Either way, it doesn’t look good. You want to hit Zoellick?  I think you’re wrong, but fine, I get that.  You want to use Rubin to do it?  Then I suggest you write out exactly what she should print, and then double-check your f**king footnotes.  Cause otherwise, the errors and distortions she prints will rebound back onto you.

A friend points out that Fred Hiatt is probably too embarrassed to admit that he’s fucked up a third time in trying to hire a conservative blogger (although Weigel isn’t a fuck up in the “combines equal measures of mendacity and incompetence” sense of Domenech and Rubin), and has decided to live with Rubin through the election. But then you never know