WaPo classifieds accepting only pro-Obama ads for inauguration
posted at 5:00 pm on December 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Their earnings have crumbled, the economy’s in chaos, and they’re still willing to turn down easy money the better to glorify The One.
Even a blackhearted nonbeliever like me can’t help admiring true religious devotion when he sees it.
“WashingtonPost Media is at the epicenter of the inauguration, and the Classifieds team is giving readers the chance to send a personal message of congratulations to President-Elect Obama that can be read by millions. The announcements can be placed though the call center or online, with prices starting at $10 for the combo. TWP anticipates about 2,500 – 3,000 announcements will be posted, to appear in the January 20 inaugural issue and live online from today until President’s Day.”…
BUT: Buried in the news is this curious tidbit…
“All ads must be congratulatory in nature. The Washington Post reserves the right to reject any notice.”
This must be costing them a few hundred thou from the birth-certificate nuts alone. Obvious reasons aside, why would they do it? Are they maybe afraid that Rahm’s going to cut off White House access to the hometown paper if a few one-inch harangues about socialism slip through? Or is it really more of a purehearted “you don’t let atheists run ads in the church bulletin” kind of thing”?
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Love the metaphor.
amerpundit on December 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM
“Congratulations President Barack Hussein Obama on being the first President elected through internet campaign fraud.”
~Doodad Pro & Will Good
BKennedy on December 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Sounds pretty “congratulatory in nature” to me.
amerpundit on December 17, 2008 at 5:04 PM
WaPo will censor anti-Obama messages, but I’m guessing they’ll keep the $10.
Exurban Jon on December 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
why would anyone waste the $10 ?
lorien1973 on December 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
“Congratulations on swimming in the Chicago political sewer and coming out clean.”
INC on December 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Perhaps you could ask one Alex Barriger:
I censored the numbers but he/she includes the full thing.
amerpundit on December 17, 2008 at 5:07 PM
“Congratulations on signing Michelle Malkin and HA to your ‘anti-birther’ defense team!”
MrScribbler on December 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Sounds remarkably similar to their editorial policy.
Vashta.Nerada on December 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Come on, AP, let’s keep this one free of racist overtones.
As for the WaPoMedia “congratulatory” limitation – does this mean my economy message “O – GFY!” is out? Might be worth $10 just to send it and know that some WaPo nitwit got to read it.
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Wha…? An MSM outlet in the tank for Obambi?!?!?
SHOCKER!
Liberty or Death on December 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM
What do you think?
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Vomit worthy however, I can no longer offer up any bile. My only hope is a convulsing induced dry heave.
milwife88 on December 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM
I know it’s not art, but do you like it?
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM
You’re a good editor!
INC on December 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM
“President Obama, congratulations on turning the right into a bunch of crybabies.”
Dave Rywall on December 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM
We all do what we can. I’m feeling a little put out that no one likes my first congratulations. (O-GFY)
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Did they offer the same for Bush? Have they ever sold pages for congrats to a president before?
Esthier on December 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM
The paper is truly the “Washington Compost.”
jencab on December 17, 2008 at 5:14 PM
But, Dave, I thought you said before we were hard-hearted meanies. Now we’re crybabies? Get your story down. And speaking of which, are you coming down for the blowout in DC?
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Nope. Somebody thought it up and the paper jumped right in:
amerpundit on December 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Lesse… how would Drywall act in this situation if it were reversed…
Oh yeah…
CENSORSHIP! RESTRICTION OF MY CIVIL RIGHTS. NOW YOU SEE THE DEMOTHUGS IN ACTION!
Skywise on December 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM
I’m wondering the same thing…
beatcanvas on December 17, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Sorry, the acronym isn’t clicking in my head–but I know it’s something that the WaPo would definitely not put in the paper.
INC on December 17, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Heh. Today’s Chicago Sun-Times features a color blurb on page 1 which trumpets:
FREE! OBAMA COLLECTORS PRINT
Get the second in our series of three
beautiful full-color Barack Obama
collectors prints in today’s Sun-Times
2 inch font, in red. You can’t make this sh*t up.
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM
This is the same paper that employs, among others, Dan Froomkin and Eugene Robinson – is anyone really surprised by this action?
sayabule1 on December 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM
So if McCain had won and the Washington Times had a similar positive only section for his inaugural we’d be discussing this? Actually we probably would with the usual suspects crying, “Why doesn’t the Washington Post have a positive only section?”
grdred944 on December 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM
grdred944 – say what?
sayabule1 on December 17, 2008 at 5:20 PM
O won’t have to censor the press, they’ll do it themselves. Hey, that way they can still call it Freedom of the Press!
Done That on December 17, 2008 at 5:20 PM
INC, you’re killin’ me!
O (Obama, natch)
GFY (Ahem – Go F Yourself)
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM
I can’t see the WT doing that.
INC on December 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Thanks for the chuckle, Allah.
Infidoll on December 17, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Congrats on putting black and white behind us — in the spirit of the season, we’re now focused on green or red.
cthulhu on December 17, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Contest time, folks…let’s see who can slip one through. It’ll have to be cleverly constructed to get past the censors.
James on December 17, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Heh, I hear ya. I’ve vomited so much over the last two years listening to the endless BS coming from Obambi and all the lefty morons that believe everything he says (without question) has left me with nothing but dry the heaves.
However since I have a stomach churning detest for stupidity I think I can muster some projectile vomit for the above post…just for you Rywall!
Liberty or Death on December 17, 2008 at 5:28 PM
My naiveté is showing. I was thinking you were meant something that had to do with the economy–not spareness of letters to save space in the ad.
INC on December 17, 2008 at 5:28 PM
I’d like to see a good one. Surely someone here has the skills.
Those are both depressing.
Esthier on December 17, 2008 at 5:30 PM
new name: AllahBlackHeartPundit
long with a RAY-cist taint, but has a Zing to it
My ( rejected ) ad
BITE ME, YOU UNQUALIFIED, AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONed, ARROGANT FRONT MAN FOR THUGS AND MEGA-MONEY TRANS-NATIONAL FAT CATS
Janos Hunyadi on December 17, 2008 at 5:30 PM
HT: Redstate.
There goes the Jacksons’ inaugural invitations.
Wethal on December 17, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Congratulations on having a more profound impact on the distribution of information than Johannes Gutenberg. You converted the trite, dry, and ordinary news disciplines who, what, why, when, where, and how into “You propaganda” and take it or leave it.
ericdijon on December 17, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Try: “Congratulations for defeating the most Maverick Republican Senator in American history.”
HotAirJosef on December 17, 2008 at 5:34 PM
If he [Dave Rywall] is I will rent my house to him for 5 grand for the week.
F15Mech on December 17, 2008 at 5:35 PM
thou shall not speak against that One.
mindhacker on December 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Ow. C’mon, Esthier, jus’ tryin’ to keep it real, you know?
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Free Targets!!!
rgranger on December 17, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Brevity is the soul of wit, INC. And I think that might be just the ticket for James’s contest.
Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I’ll be a little less cynical and compare it to a newspaper’s “congratulations on graduating, Class of ‘XX” pages I’ve seen over the years.
malclave on December 17, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Tell me why we are suppose to ignore the scandals and go easy on the Abomination?
Blake on December 17, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Good Luck you putz.
JiangxiDad on December 17, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Congratulations on your inauguration to the highest office in the land. You have shown that one can ascend from humble circumstances, through a stealthily funded Ivy league education, to state office, to Senate whilst accumulating inversely positive experience and still become president.
AZfederalist on December 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM
……….. fixed it for ‘ya.
Seven Percent Solution on December 17, 2008 at 6:48 PM
That would be all well and good had WaPo offered similar congratulation ads back in 2001 or 2005…but once again, they are proving their absolute religious devotion to the Church of the Left, and its current Pope Obama.
Chris Muir lampooned the press well last month in his Day by Day web comic, where he had the press lying prostrate before The One. However I think he had them in the wrong position: rather than being prostrate, they are crouched on their knees, face down, with a$$ up high, like Muslims do when they pray towards Mecca.
Case in point: when Obama thrice batted back John McCormick of the Chicago Trib yesterday (in regards to his questions about Blago-Rahma), McCormick’s fourth question was, “Do you or Duncan have a better jump shot?”
Silly bloggers. Don’t you know that reporters, like sluts, will do anything for access???
Wanderlust on December 17, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Perhaps this is why ‘the one’ has chosen surround himself with the former Clinton administration. He is hoping that all the White Water will dilute the stintch and stain of Chicago political effluent.
RealityCheck4 on December 17, 2008 at 7:01 PM
They figure they’ll make up for this with the the ads from the anti-Constitutionalist sycophants proclaiming how the Precedent-Elect is so trustworthy and honest. The suck-ups will probably even take out ads declaring the Precedent-Elect to have run the cleanest campaign finance system in history.
progressoverpeace on December 17, 2008 at 7:04 PM
BKennedy on December 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM
BK — Just turn one word, “fraud,” into “ingenuity,: and I guarantee it’ll get by the WaPo censors.
Nichevo on December 17, 2008 at 7:11 PM
People actually still buy WaPo fish wrap?
whoulda thunk
FlatFoot on December 17, 2008 at 7:22 PM
They will make a fortune…
right2bright on December 17, 2008 at 7:22 PM
“Congratulations on pulling off the biggest political heist in American history, convincing millions upon millions that you actually have some idea what the hell you’re doing when we both know you don’t.”
capitalist piglet on December 17, 2008 at 7:40 PM
I honestly couldn’t care less. I mean the election is over, the guy won, he IS the president elect. I would want my presidential inauguration to go well.
The only thing that makes this wrong is that we all know damn well this didn’t happen for Bush/Bush/Reagan, (or prolly even clintong), and won’t happen for a conservative president period.
But in all honesty, this is neither surprising nor disconcerting to me.
Bo on December 17, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Congratulations, Dear Leader.
Asher on December 17, 2008 at 7:55 PM
When do worship services begin?
GarandFan on December 17, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Anything to try to pull their asses out of the fire after hundreds of cancelled subscriptions, but I don’t think the Obama franchise is going to be very profitable in the long run. This is hilarious.
ddrintn on December 17, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Indeed. Stay away when he does.
Entelechy on December 18, 2008 at 12:45 AM
“You’re the bomb, kiddo! — Bill A.”
Jim Treacher on December 18, 2008 at 12:52 AM
GFY = Good For You! How could they have a problem with that? Or how about:
“I realize you won, but I can’t help but be angry anyway. — D. Rywall”
Jim Treacher on December 18, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Gratefully, everyone told Bush, “Enough.” New times! Change! Obama makes me incredibly elated!
(The first letter of each word…)
Jim Treacher on December 18, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Genius…..thinking cap is on.
If anyone makes it, you gotta post a scanned image!
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on December 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM
I give nominations of righteous and national thanks. And righteous republic of greatness and national thanks. Forever onward Obama lives.
This sounds poetic, almost like a haiku. Or maybe like one of the many Chinese donators would write. Actually, it sounds more like a left-wing nut-job.
Ignorant Arrogant Fool
DuctTapeMyBrain on December 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM
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