Imagine selecting the first men who would walk on the moon. The Washington Post seems to be in a similar position, looking for a reporter based in Texas, “a region shaped by conservative ideology.” It’s nice that the Post is looking outside of its bubble a little bit, but we remember the mainstream media getting a lot of blowback after Donald Trump won the election and reporters ventured into rural diners to talk to these “Trump voters.” None of their readers or viewers wanted to hear anything about those people; they knew all they needed to know.
We note that the job description says the correspondent will “illuminate the forces driving political polarization,” which we take to mean investigating why these red-staters are causing so much trouble for liberals.
Job posting: The Washington Post is looking for an enterprising reporter based in Texas to document life in red state America and develop a new beat mapping the culture, public policies and politics in a region shaped by conservative ideology.https://t.co/CJS99O8kg7
— Washington Post PR (@WashPostPR) April 12, 2022
Tell us you're out of touch with a sizable portion of America without telling us you're out of touch with a sizable portion of America.
— Tim Hagle (@ProfHagle) April 12, 2022
This pieces of shit are so out of touch with reality that they make it sound like they're sending someone to Mars.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 12, 2022
"Anthropologists capable of understanding the mysterious tribal ways of that dimly understood part of the world know as 'Red America' encouraged to apply. May have to endure weeks, or even months, without access to arugula, bodegas or lesbian poetry slams." pic.twitter.com/MQQFVUdoL0
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) April 12, 2022
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Translation: "We need an enlightened white liberal with an Ivy League J-School degree to interview those inbred redneck freaks from JesusLand so we can report on why the country is so polarized." pic.twitter.com/dEFKATg2R3
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) April 12, 2022
Beto will be available in November.
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) April 12, 2022
Nice.
Is this a joke?
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 12, 2022
Jesus Christ an actual Red State Safari column
— 🌪️ Death Cab for Curie 🔥 (@CharltonLack) April 12, 2022
WashPo reporter on the new beat pic.twitter.com/7lug3qI6rG
— Jack Tar’s Revenge (@tar_revenge) April 12, 2022
Conservatives in the Mist
— smoke and vinyl (@smokeandvinyl) April 12, 2022
Nothing conservative about politics in Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso or San Antonio. This must be a small town Texas posting…
— JJ (@JJhkYank) April 12, 2022
Y'all really think anything not served by the northeast corridor is another planet, don't you?
— Matthew Leach (@MatthewHLeach) April 12, 2022
It must be nice to be completely unburdened with the curse of self awareness.
— Patriot Pizza & Conservative Politics (@PatrioticPizzas) April 12, 2022
Translation: We're looking for someone to be an unreliable narrator and write regular hit pieces on the locals.
— Brian (@bhg70) April 12, 2022
A lot of people in the replies are really butthurt about this job posting, as they’ve heard plenty about the people in red states; there are a few hundred variations on this theme:
Gonna go interview some fascists in diners and tell us all about how reasonable their concerns are?
— Uncle Waldorf (@spd_defund) April 12, 2022
Related:
WaPo’s crackerjack team of investigators has caught on Hunter Biden’s laptop, as if they’ve been working on it from the get-go https://t.co/FombuCXfBe
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 30, 2022
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