We mentioned this in a post earlier this week but we thought we’d do a standalone post. It turns out that Comfortably Smug’s #HackMadness tournament once again came down to CNN’s Brian Stelter and the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin. If we’re not mistaken, the tournament wrapped up before Stelter got depantsed by a college freshman at The Atlantic’s “Disinformation” conference, so that’s two fails for Stelter this week.
Stelter took the prize in 2020’s inaugural #HackMadness tournament but was dethroned by Jennifer Rubin in 2021. Rubin managed to hold off the challenge, with her rapturous tweets about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation perhaps sending her over the top.
Welcome to the CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH of #HackMadness!!
Voting Begins NOW!!
(1) @brianstelter
vs
(1) @JRubinBlogger
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) April 6, 2022
Tater gets mashed again!
— Rex LeMasters (D-Lirious) (@RexSLeMasters) April 7, 2022
Intellectually, it's truly a contest between the impotent force vs the pliable object.
— Jon Lustig (@jonlustig) April 7, 2022
Dynasty
— Ronaldus Magnus (@camjohn_) April 8, 2022
Tough. Tater plays to win, but had to go with the Kween. Since they purport that she is a conservative voice, that's the tie breaker
— CowDoc🐮 (@mooodoc) April 7, 2022
It's close, but not that close. Only @JRubinBlogger claims to be a "conservative" here.
— Hearsay_Shearsay (@HShearsay) April 6, 2022
Never a doubt.
— Mitchell Russell (@RussMitch28) April 6, 2022
— NavyTim (@ChiefNavyTim) April 6, 2022
Has to be Jen.
She is the queen of Twitter psychopaths.— mallen2010 (@mallen_2010) April 7, 2022
My girl–the queen pic.twitter.com/HUymL0lzpq
— mallen2010 (@mallen_2010) April 7, 2022
It was the "but for massive inflation the Biden economy is gangbusters" take that sealed the deal for her
— Bunting Wheeler (@drebin_lt) April 8, 2022
She brought the best out of herself in this tournament. Jen always rises to the challenge.
— Seth (@Seth56585083) April 8, 2022
They make a good point: Rubin at one point claimed to be a conservative, so that makes her an even bigger hack than Stelter.
Editor’s note: We corrected the mistaken year in the headline.
Related:
Jennifer Rubin ekes out a win over last year’s champion Brian Stelter in Comfortably Smug’s #HackMadness bracket https://t.co/KVtcuONpMU
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 5, 2021
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