Well, you called the Secretary of State a bitch, Dana…
“What I have noticed is that the conservatives have been saying, ‘He’s just not funny.‘ And now the left wing is saying, ‘He’s just not funny,’” Milbank said. “Either they’re driven by partisan animus or I’m just not that funny.”
…maybe you’re just not that funny. I mean even dick and fart jokes are more original than going after the former first lady for being too tough.
I always love the losers who get told they suck by everybody and interpret that as a sign that they’re doing something right. If both sides of the political aisle think you’re a hack then you must have found the magic elixir for perfect objectivity.
What an obscene joke.
The New York Times’s Peter Baker, a former colleague at the Post, described Milbank as “an equal opportunity offender.”
“He fearlessly lampoons all of us,” Baker said. “Half of his columns are mocking reporters. That’s what makes him great. He opposes the hypocrisies and pompousness and absurdities of Washington.”
Does he take on the pompous absurdity of being a Skull & Bonesman? I note that George Herbert Walker Bush was known as Magog, which seems to have confused his son, ‘Temporary.’
Dana Milbank is an insider pretending to be an irreverent outsider. He’s a lonely buffoon.
Their self-importance is really something. I’d be interested to know what percentage of the adult population has even heard of Dana Milbank, much less read him. Or, for that matter, the rest of the pundit class. I’m willing to bet that, collectively, they’re less well-known than a great many minor celebrities.
And by minor, I mean like the people on the cover Tiger Beat.
Who do you think the most famous columnist in the country is?
Sadly … my guess is George Will
Good question. I have no idea. In all seriousness, I’d really like to see the results of a survey on the topic.
Dave Barry. Hands down more people know who Dave Barry is than anyone else on the Opinion page.
And after him, probably Garrison Keillor.
Dana Milbank writes the Washington Sketch column about political theater in the capital. He joined The Post as a political reporter in 2000, after two years as a senior editor of The New Republic and eight years with the Wall Street Journal. He is also author of two political books, Homo Politicus (Doubleday, 2008) and Smashmouth (Basic Books, 2001). He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter. With what he has done for the country, I think, he wont need any cash advances. I just hope that even if he lost in this fight, he will still continue fighting for the good.
I’ve always detested those who’ve felt that the right and left edges are always, by definition, wrong and that the center is always, again by definition, correct. What they ignore is that right and left may not be criticizing you for the same reason. The right may feel “He’s not bowing down to our Glorious Leader low enough!” The left may feel “He’s not telling the truth.”
No, I’m sorry, but being criticized by both the left and the right is NOT a good thing!