{"id":676305,"date":"2010-02-26T04:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69233"},"modified":"2010-02-26T04:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:30:05","slug":"%e2%80%98the-party%e2%80%99-is-over-but-the-weenies-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676305","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Party\u2019 is over, but the weenies remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that while pushing for war upon war will keep you employed at the Washington Post forever; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/node\/40521\">harassment<\/a> won&#8217;t hurt your career, and heck, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/17\/iwashington-posti-hires-c_n_465804.html\">supporting war crimes<\/a> seems to look good on your resume.<\/p>\n<p>And while no one ever said Sally Quinn didn&#8217;t wreck a home <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2008\/03\/15\/shut-yer-piehole-homewrecker\/\">for nothing<\/a>, it appears that after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,912611,00.html\">years of stories<\/a> that would get anyone else terminated, Sally finally may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/18\/AR2010021805078.html\">gone too far<\/a> in writing about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2010\/02\/24\/brauchli-on-the-party-by-sally-quinn\/\">&#8220;terrible&#8221; step-children&#8217;s mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>[Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus] Brauchli e-mailed City Desk a statement saying the following about Quinn&#8217;s execrable column, &#8220;The Party&#8221;: &#8220;Sally and I have agreed that the column will return to what had been its original focus on faith, family and entertaining and will appear online at &#8220;On Faith,&#8221; a section of washingtonpost.com that Sally guides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So no more print columns for the Village&#8217;s hostess.<\/p>\n<p>What this situation calls for is a good Ombudsperson!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-69234\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/26\/the-party-is-over-but-the-weenies-remain\/ombudsmand-andy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69234  aligncenter\" title=\"ombudsmand andy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/ombudsmand-andy-300x137.png?resize=300%2C137\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s somebody who knows when to get the hell out of town.  Ol&#8217; Ombuds Andy has worked hard for those finger-sandwiches they serve at Sally&#8217;s parties and he&#8217;s not going back to cutting off his own crust!<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69233&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69233\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that while pushing for war upon war will keep you employed at the Washington Post forever; harassment won&#8217;t hurt your career, and heck, supporting war crimes seems to look good on your resume. And while no one ever said Sally Quinn didn&#8217;t wreck a home for nothing, it appears that after years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PW9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}