Today Among the Brogressives
By It sure is hard to understand why so many FireDogLakers believe that womens’ rights should carry no weight in determining “progressive” voting behavior.
Key graf to discourage you from eating the mangoes after clicking the link:
Eli Lake’s relationship with Rosie Gray is also a matter of some concern. It is widely believed Lake has been schooling her on the ways of neoconservatism and shoddy reporting, including giving her leads on stories. Though according to a former intern of Lake’s at the New York Sun, writer and researcher Charles Johnson, Lake may be having a romantic relationship with Gray. * Johnson, also an associate of Gray, claims that she gets a lot of her stories from her “boyfriend” Lake.
*original text: “Lake may be pumping more than stories into Gray.” Are we sure this guy isn’t a Republican candidate for Senate?
All these apocryphal stories of uppity women journalists trading sex for sources — that’s Obama’s America for you. Paul/Paul ’16! And what Meredith Clark says:
"[Woman reporter] must be sleeping with someone for her sources" is a lazy, disgusting attack, so thanks for bringing it back, brogressives
— Meredith Clark (@MeredithLClark) March 19, 2014
…and as commenter hb notes, the replies of the author to this tweet are priceless. Actual quote defending assertion that “Lake may be pumping more than stories into Lake”: “People having sex is sexist?” Are we sure FDL isn’t just an elaborate put-on written by Christopher Guest at this point?