
It was not so long ago that we were anticipating being dazzled when chronically incorrect Bill Kristol helped put together financing for The Washington Free Beacon in an effort to find his dumb son-in-law Matt Continetti some steady work and out of the guest house. Strapping young chickenhawk and Protector of the Sacred Palin Taint Matt guaranteed as much when he cried ‘havoc and let slip the Wolverines! of war’ with his opening salvo - Combat Journalism: Bring It, Libtards!:
Meanwhile, rather than tease out the connections between the big banks, unions, alternative energy companies, entrenched market incumbents, institutions such as the Center for American Progress and its Action Fund, and the policy apparatus of the Democratic Party, the press is far happier to mock Republicans as rubes and incompetents and to cover with relish Mitt Romney’s latest gaffe.
What would happen, though, if a website covered the left in the same way that the left covers the right? What picture of the world would one have in mind if the morning paper read like the New York Times—but with the subjects of the stories and the assumptions built into the text changed to reflect a conservative, not liberal, worldview? What would happen if the media wolf pack suddenly had to worry about an aerial hunting operation?
What indeed, and do you have a mailing list that I can subscribe to? Because I find your views very interesting.
You are about to find out.
Oh, sorry. Carry on….
The Washington Free Beacon is here to enter the arena of combat journalism. Our talented staff will add to the chorus of enterprising conservative reporters, publishing original stories, seeking out scoops, and focusing on the myriad connections between money and power in the progressive movement and Obama’s Washington. Our research and war room divisions will supplement that reporting with context, additional materials, and breaking video. At the Beacon, you will find the other half of the story, the half that the elite media have taken such pains to ignore: the inside deals, cronyism cloaked in the public interest, and far-out nostrums of contemporary progressivism and the Democratic Party. At the Beacon, all friends of freedom will find an alternative to the hackneyed spin, routine misstatements, paranoid hyperbole, and insipid folderol of Democratic officials and the liberal gasbags on MSNBC and talk radio. At the Beacon, we follow only one commandment: Do unto them.
And to prove they were serious about this War On Fake Nostrums thingy, the FeeB even gave out these really cool free promotional Beacon USB drives (to your right) shaped like bullets because they are totally BAD ASS and butch and almost as good as enlisting in the military to fight Islamosuiciders overseas which the guys at the FeeB would have done if there wasn’t a culture war at home to be fought. But, hey, maybe next time we invade an oil-exporting country run by evildoers. Iran? Argentina? California?
Someday.
In the meantime, the Free Beacon is bringin’ it, as seen by their in-kind contribution to the Romney campaign (which is still celebrating forcing Rick Santorum to abort [hah!] his campaign) with its attack on the Obama Administration for being hostile to women because … shut up, they just are and Mitt Romney needs to do something to fill his ginormous lady gap (oh, grow up. Honestly, you guys…).
As you will see, the Beacon has turned its investigative equalizer on the “the half that the elite media have taken such pains to ignore” and that half says that President Obama is hatin’ on the women worser than Republicans do because he personally won’t pay the ladies for their hard work socialism-ing the country and probably having abortions:
Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
Calculating the median salary for each gender required some assumptions to be made based on the employee names. When unclear, every effort was taken to determine the appropriate gender.
We looked at the annual report and it’s true! It turns out that, for example, Deputy Assistant to the President Jonathan Carson makes $153,500 whereas Special Assistant To The White House Rhonda M. Carter only makes $63,240! Un-fair! Rhonda is a “Special” Assistant which has to be better than a “Deputy” Assistant because “deputy” is like a second in command and “Special” is… ‘special’ or ‘unique’ and therefore rarer, like A Very Special Episode of Blossom. Not equal, or lesser – better! But, no, Rhonda makes less money, probably because women don’t really need money and also because they get to have boobs which is another unfair thing about men and women. Unless you’re Hugh Hewitt.
But wait, The Beacon’s Andrew Stiles missed THE BIG STORY.
Why do Policy Advisors Patricia McGinnis, Jessica Schumer and Shale Wong get paid no Nobama dollars? Why no monies for the ladies?
Two words:
White. Slavery.
Cue Drudge siren…3….2….1





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So … I don’t get it. Big banks and entrenched market incumbents are now bad guys to the Rightards? I can’t keep up.
I have read that the Obama admin is somewhat of a boys club. That said, do the republicans REALLY want to open this up? I am sure the Romney campaign’s salary and wage numbers are totally equitable…
I would agree if it weren’t for the fact that Obama leans heavily on Valerie Jarret and Anita Dunn (even though Dunn has left the White House) as Big Picture advisers
Spinal Tap, Mark 2 – we hope you like our new direction!
“Breitbart’s Chalk Outline”
Great band name.
Can’t stop laughing.
Combat Journalism. The very name of this concept gives me a thrill, but gives rise to some questions:
- Will security in the combat zone be provided by the Red State Strike Force?
- Will reporters receive combat pay for cab rides within the District of Columbia or other major urban areas?
- Will there be a clothing allowance for replacing urine soaked trousers in the event of an encounter in a combat zone with a really scary person, say a FedEx delivery person who happens to be a black male?
- Will these valiant and tireless reporters ever discover the answer to the age old question: What is the sound of one hand fapping?
Inquiring minds want to know….
I won’t click on any link to them but if they had enough self control to get through this mind numbingly stupid story without once mentioning the new black panthers then I am impressed.
If only FOX news was the biggest network in America, then they’d have a point and a reason to exist.
Just when I thought I had brain-bleached that image away, you go and whip out ‘ole High Beams Hugh again.
Nasty.
Speaking of BigChalkOutline… where’s the toxicology report?
Are these guys even trying? Go to the White House report, clock on the rightmost tab and sort by Title and Position, then compare salaries.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2011
If anything, this seems to be a model of fair pay. There may be a question to be asked about the balance of men and women in the top grades, but on pay? Not so much.
Clock? I really must stop drinking first thing in the morning…
I did a spit-take on “…the FeeB.”
Really. After all this time you’d think I’d have learned not to drink while reading TBogg.
Not necessary for their target audience.
Perhaps Continetti could investigate the disappearance of Breitbart’s toxicology report.
Tellingly absent… comments section.
“Combat journalism…” I’m picturing a sweaty Rambo with ammo belts festooned across his bare chest. Wearing a snap-brim fedora with a “Press” card in the band. And, maybe, carrying a 1947 Royal typewriter instead of a machine gun.
Continetti always impressed me as one badass hombre; the kind of guy who probably has a bullet thumb drive. I can visualize the ceremony when Kristol issued Matt his bullet. Now he’s got something to put in his bandalier.
Right about now the pan-Galactic super aliens are watching from the moon, half of them face palming the other half fighting to keep Jinn-Flast from hitting the button that opens a black hole in the center of the planet to remove us from having any chance of infecting the rest of the Galactic community.
Jeebus, what a takedown.
Pierce was right–there’s nothing funnier on the nets than TBogg.
“Combat” journalism…
They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
Big Banks are financing Fracking not Alternative energy even though Natural gas prices would have to double for Fracking to make money. Now there is talk of getting Government/the GOP to help build liquid natural gas plants so we can export natural gas thus increasing demand and raising the price of natural gas in the Press.
Meanwhile Alternative energy just keeps getting cheaper and when pollution costs like water that catches on fire and earthquakes are taken into account Alternative energy is much cheaper.
The banks who claim to be experts at allocating capital to create jobs are sitting on billions in loans to an industry that can’t make money and given global warming natural gas prices should keep getting lower.
I don’t know the banks exposure to nuclear power but it seems even with government loans Nuke power very well might be dead.
But of course the GOP and Obama won’t mention Nukes or Fracking this election. After the election I expect Nukes and Fracking to both get even more government cash.
InContinetti has a nice ring to it.
Is the GOP that desperate to win that they now have to turn on the banks and try and link us to the banks despite the GOP brand being linked to banks and big business for decades heck longer than I have been alive?
You cannot undo that kind of brand identification in a single election cycle. The fact the GOP is trying to do this suggests blind panic. But who cares as long as the GOP keeps talking about made up issues they will be ignored by everyone but the 30%. The more they talk about made up stories and get attention the more they lose moderate voters.
They need to talk about jobs and homes and so does Obama.
GOPers would rather fight than talk about the issues have they noticed that the immigration rights rallies got more people than the Tea Baggers ever had at their rallies oh wait the Democrat controlled Media never gave us half the coverage the Tea Baggers got.
The GOP never had Tea Bagger rallies the same size or last as many months as the Wisconsin Protests or as many peotests in different cities as OWS but again the Democrat controlled media never gave us half the coverage as the Tea Baggers got.
Tea Baggers are now less popular than Muslims and Atheists in America because they backed Rep Ryan’s cutting SS and Medicare.
Does the GOP really want to talk about fights when they can’t get anyone from their side to show up and we can despite no media coverage?
As far as accusing us of Cronyism goes this guy has a job thanks to Cronyism. We are in debt because of GOP ideas like tax breaks for the rich in time of war and the housing bubble banks basically printed money by approving loans for homes at prices that were unrealistically high. No it wasn’t government forcing banks to lend to dark people. If it were the GOP would have shown some numbers by now. That and Whites would not be homeless.
The GOP can keep avoiding jobs and homes as issues and they can keep getting 6% less primary votes than Jon McCain got when he lost to Obama despite growth in America’s population I might add. There is a reason why the GOP message is so unpopular and GOP ideas are the reason.
That mission statement sounds like Koch boilerplate. How many of these wingnut welfare GOP misinformation outlets can the typical mouthbreather read? Someone should tell Matt not to give the game away in the “About us” section of his site.
the only good thing about andrew breitbart
is that he is dead.
+1
Did they really take the average salary by gender without controlling for position? Eric Holder’s secretary makes less than he does. Scandal! They can’t be that stupid, can they? (rhetorical question)