Word comes this morning that the Washington Post has killed its Mouthpiece Theater video series after last Friday’s clip sparked outrage when the two hosts essentially called Hillary Clinton a “mad bitch.” In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the controversy from Politico, as well as an absolutely brilliant and devastating online video that helped bring the Post to its knees.
In the “Ménage à Stella Artois” episode — panned by the Columbia Journalism Review’s blog — the Post reporters discuss the “beer summit,” offering comical suggestions on what beers leading political figures would drink.
While Milbank and Cillizza mock figures on both sides of the aisle, and themselves — they’d take Jackass Oatmeal Stout — their beer suggestion for the Secretary of State could prompt charges of sexism.
Both Talking Points Memo and Media Matters have seized upon the part where Hillary Clinton’s face is on the screen, while Milbank says, “we won’t tell you who’s getting a bottle of ‘Mad Bitch’ beer.”
Hopefully at some point soon, Washington Post reporters will, you know, start actually reporting the news — instead of acting like buffoons auditioning to be the next Jon Stewart or Bill Maher. Because we already have too many of those.
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