WashPo’s “Right Now” Blog More Like “Wrong Now”

The WashPo has launched a blog about the conservative movement called “Right Now.”  Unfortunately, the first entry of it that I read was filled with a host of simple factual errors that would get an author canned from Virtucon or a blog tossed out of the Jeffersoniad.  (Actually, since both Virtucon and the Jeffersoniad screen potential members pretty thoroughly, such a blogger would never make it into either in the first place.)

Take this post from Right Now for example.  Here are some excerpts:

A mixed primary night for the tea parties

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The big disappointments happened in Indiana, where former senator Dan Coats, whose lobbying record has made him as exciting to tea party activists as a plate of stale tofu, grabbed 40 percent of the vote to beat state Sen. Marlin Stutzman, the candidate of the tea parties, and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-Ind.).

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The more curious development came in the state’s two Democratic-held swing seats, where Rep. Health Shuler and Rep. Larry Kissell both watched unknown opponents rack up nearly 40 percent of the vote. Kissell’s opponent, Aixa Wilson, has one of the less comprehensible policy stances I’ve seen. Kissell’s opponent, Nancy Shakir, challenged him from the left on his health-care votes. In both districts . . .

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But at the same time, Rep. Charlie Wilson (R-Ohio) drew only 68.9 percent of the vote against his challenger, Jim Renner, a conservative who explicitly allied himself with the tea parties and scorched Wilson over his vote for health-care reform.

Here’s what is wrong with this particular post.

Jim DeMint is from S.C., NOT Ind.

Who was Kissel’s opponent?  Undoubtedly, one of these was supposed to have been Schuler’s.

“Kissell’s opponent, Aixa Wilson, has one of the less comprehensible policy stances I’ve seen. Kissell’s opponent, Nancy Shakir, challenged him from the left on his health-care votes. In both districts…”

In Ohio, U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson is a D, not an R.

If you’re going to call your blog “Right Now,” then try to be correct (a.k.a. right about things.)

Then again, the guy that the WashPo has hired to write “Right Now,” Dave Weigel, is the same guy who posted this on his Twitter account and thought that it was funny.

“I hear there’s video out there of Matt Drudge diddling an 8-year-old boy. Shocking.”

He defended this as a joke in response to a Drudge linked National Enquirer story about President Obama having an affair.  Why would Weigel say “an 8-year-old boy” and not something else like “Oprah” or “a llama” or “Larry Sabato’s toupee”?  I suppose that Wiegel thinks that pedophilia and child sexual abuse are a real laugh riot.  (He should ask Joey Stanley how such jokes worked out for him a few years back.)

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