The Washington Post’s website says Dan Zak is a feature writer with a bachelor’s degree in literature and journalism, and his latest piece appears in the paper’s Style section.
But what’s it about? The dramatic excerpt provided in the promotional tweet doesn’t give a very clear idea that it comprises dispatches from inside The Resistance, but it might squeak through a freshman poetry class on a good day, or at least make would-be novelist Ben Rhodes jealous.
https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1013864165872717826
“This is not a normal time,” writes Zak, certainly proving the point when it comes to the nation’s major newspapers.
What's your point?
— Anthony Rawlings (@arketex) July 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1013881980943990786
“A Supreme Court seat, open like a wound” is not journalism — at least not in our world.
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/1013867336762318854
More hyperbole than Trump, and that's not easy to do.
— Gradual Sand (@warmingtozero) July 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/MattBracken48/status/1013883017872527360
Must be the heat…
— Well duh…. (@HardieEric) July 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/cehoskinson/status/1013867847762825216
Hinges are for old white men
— Bill Waldron (@wjwaldron) July 2, 2018
"election hurtling toward us like avenging angel or killer asteroid"
Or maybe, just an election?
— davrola (@davrola) July 2, 2018
Meh. Reads to me like somebody who always thought he should write romance novels. He probably shouldn't.
— Cromwell Singh (@CromwellSingh) July 2, 2018
Recommended
https://twitter.com/chrisdotgordon/status/1013867644976582658
Violated Norm was my favorite Cheers episode.
— Wodeshed, Peep Derple (@Wodeshed) July 2, 2018
"Hurtling toward us like an avenging angel, or a killer asteroid?" A Supreme Court seat "open like a wound?" This isn't objective or informative reporting, it's third-rate melodrama that isn't helping your cause – even though that's your very obvious intention.
— Charles W. Burkett (@CharlesWBurkett) July 2, 2018
Dude, a little over the top… Is this supposed to be funny? pic.twitter.com/O1y1Aqf7l2
— Te®®i ⭐⭐⭐ ? ?? ? (@trbrad62) July 2, 2018
Nope pic.twitter.com/vg3KeknC6P
— Flag of Freedom ?? (@FlagofFreedom4) July 2, 2018
At least The Washington Post provides some much-needed balance with its conservative blogger, Jennifer Rubin. Maybe some of her sober prose will put us back in a serious frame of mind; what’s she on about today?
Democrats should run on impeachment… of Scott Pruitt
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 3, 2018