“Should these two paragraph be the lede of this feature?” “Nahh, what readers really want to know is his personal wrestling style. That’s our exclusive.”

Is this the investigative reporting about Jordan from Wapo that I’ve been hearing about? Wow.

Clearly it was written when the Post still thought Jordan would be speaker and they would need access to him.

Hey, they sweetened the beat. (The beat turned out to be on the precipice of vanishing, but they sweetened it.)

It's bad enough to write a suck-up piece on the new Speaker of the House but it's even worse when you decide to run that piece the day after it becomes clear that he will not, in fact, become Speaker of the House.

None of these places have bothered to earn a single subscription penny from me.

Really tired of words like "unyielding", "combative", and "firebrand" beind used to describe people who are (and always have been) just belligerent assholes and bullies.

democracy dies in a gray haze of both sides-ism 🙄

Jim Jordan’s LOCKER was RIGHT NEXT TO Strauss’.

"Okay, but only if you cut the bits that reveal it's not just Trump's enemies that his confrontational style elicits death threats for, but also his Republican colleagues in Congress."