{"id":209,"date":"2009-08-05T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/milbank-and-cillizza-apologize\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T21:09:18","slug":"milbank-and-cillizza-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/milbank-and-cillizza-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Milbank and Cillizza Apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza have apologized<\/a> for their latest Mouthpiece Theater, the one where they called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a \u201cbitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

And The Post has canceled the experiment that Mouthpiece was.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against either one of them.  When Milbank sticks to skewering the righteous and puffed egos of the political elite he can be fun, though not necessarily required reading.  Cillizza is not offensive as an analyst, but I rarely read him.<\/p>\n

But they deserved the video response below.  (The original, which was not only offensive to women but not even remotely funny, is below it.)<\/p>\n

After this, the salon snafu and some editorial decisions \u2013 like this morning\u2019s Governor story<\/a> \u2013 you\u2019ve got to ask yourself, \u201cWhose minding the ship over at WaPo?<\/p>\n

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Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza have apologized for their latest Mouthpiece Theater, the one where they called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a \u201cbitch.\u201d And The Post has canceled the experiment that Mouthpiece was. I have nothing against either one of them.  When Milbank sticks to skewering the righteous and puffed egos… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}