Stop the insanity!

This is the same paper that's been going around DC trying to elicit bribes for access to Obama administration officials and their own reporters. Looks like you jumped ship right before it started to sink:

' The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff.”

With the newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said in a staffwide e-mail that the newsroom would not participate in the first of the planned events — a dinner scheduled July 21 at the home of Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth.The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — was a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.

It is hard to conceive of anything more inappropriate and rife with conflicts of interest than such a stunt. It is made all the worse by the rank hypocrisy.'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html

...The WaPo Op-Ed section has been rendered virtually unreadable, swollen as it has become with nonsense from ideological hacks such as Gerson and Krauthammer (I will not even grant Kristol the honor of inclusion in this dubious company. He is, quite frankly, logically and rhetorically pathetic.)

And yet they fire Froomkin?

Fortunately for us, Tom, the ridiculous columns published in WaPo seem primarily a magnet for derisive comments from rational civilians. It is not as if the writers are taken seriously. But one wonders, what exactly is the Post's business model?

about Tom's alma mater, the WaPo online war news page has tanked. It can go all week with the same old links. I know the paper is carrying more than that pittance in print, so why drive online readers away?

Re op-ed cheerleading for somebody/anybody's attack on Iran nuclear infrastructure, WaPo accountants ought to distance the business from an operational proposal that would, by design, scatter radioactivity onto civilian populations. That would be a war crime, a radiological WMD terror act against moslem civilians.

Do the math. That's more than just a 'Mo sucks missiles' cartoon.

Re the DC likudniks and other neocons, by what logic is it reckoned to be supporting Israel, to encourage them or us in such an enterprise?

In other news, Israel this week trumpeted the movement of a nuclear cruise missile capable Dolphin submarine into the Indian Ocean:

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=17296
Israeli sub transits Suez Canal 04/07/2009
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli defense officials say one of the country's submarines crossed through Egypt's Suez Canal as part of a training exercise.