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    JackalopalopeJ.K. Trotter
    2/05/16 5:10pm

    The way Gawker gets so excited over things that are totally routine in DC is really cute. You’re like country mouse that has arrived in the big city.

    But you’re going to have to catch up quick if this is going to be a political site. Unless your intended audience is people who know very little about politics and are perennially shocked to learn that people communicate with each other, ask each other for help, do favors for each other, know each other socially, and sometimes even go to the same dog park, you’ve got a ways to go.

    No one hates DC reporters and pundits more than I - believe me - but its a blurb about a documentary, not the freaking Pentagon Papers.

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      imakeokaybeansJackalopalope
      2/05/16 5:23pm
      But you’re going to have to catch up quick if this is going to be a political site. Unless your intended audience is people who know very little about politics and are perennially shocked to learn that people communicate with each other

      Have you seen the comment section recently? This is 100% Gawker’s target audience.

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      Jackalopalopeimakeokaybeans
      2/05/16 5:56pm

      Naw, I don’t agree. There’s some pretty sharp folks around here mixed in with the great unwashed.

      The thing is, I read Wonkette for quick politically-oriented posts. The writers are good, funny, draw from a nice breadth of sources, and don’t insult your intelligence. But I find the commenters bland.

      I don’t really read Gawker for the posts anymore, especially since they lost Caity, Pinkham, Mersereau, and Shrayber. But I stick around for the comments, because above all else these fuckers are funny as hell.

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    #NotAllYzermanJ.K. Trotter
    2/05/16 4:23pm

    Could be worse. Coca Cola once used Adolf Hitler has a ghostwriter.

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      Arden#NotAllYzerman
      2/05/16 4:50pm

      Man, I thought that was hilarious, I don’t get the butthurt over it. These are corporations we’re talking about. They’d poison the rivers and have children losing fingers in machinery if we let them do it again. I can’t really feel bad about some poor twitter campaign getting trolled.

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      Gary-XArden
      2/05/16 5:30pm

      I thought it was genius.

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    portland1J.K. Trotter
    2/05/16 4:07pm

    Oh my god, one of her employees wrote something! And she has an email account also! This is terrible!

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      Passquaportland1
      2/05/16 4:30pm

      You’re only pretending to miss the point, right? The journalist secretly let a flack write and correct an article. Just think about that.

      I don’t think the attack here is on the flack (who’s just seizing an opportunity) or his boss, who could be anyone or anything that requires/can afford PR.

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      Elleportland1
      2/05/16 6:13pm

      Is it normal for the staffers to write the little puff pieces attracting attention to things like this? I thought things on this Allen guy’s blog were presented as being written by HIM. I didn’t think normal mortal journalists could do that while having the source write it.

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    2DollarzJ.K. Trotter
    2/05/16 4:08pm

    “Amateurs”

    -S. Blumenthal

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      fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian SrJ.K. Trotter
      2/05/16 4:10pm

      next you’re going to tell me his birthday wishes are requested by sycophantic weirdos who get off on being mentioned in Playbook

      oh, wait

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        Fresh Courage TakeJ.K. Trotter
        2/05/16 4:25pm

        Goddamn those journalists engaging in murky political topics and editorializing things. There oughtta be a law.

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          Kenhe LoginJ.K. Trotter
          2/05/16 9:18pm

          He needs to decide whether he wants to be a journalist or a stenographer.

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            RandomFishesInMyPantsJ.K. Trotter
            2/05/16 4:14pm

            Omg a guy asked a friend to help him write something that he has knowledge of. Scandalous.

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              Pickle StorkJ.K. Trotter
              2/05/16 4:07pm

              *gigantic fart noise*

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                JimmyDBJ.K. Trotter
                2/05/16 4:22pm

                500 Days of Hillary, Day 276: Someone She Knows Did Something!

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