Jennifer Rubin’s latest hacktastic masterpiece for The Washington Post deserved much more than mere fact-checking and National Review Online’s Charles C.W. Cooke delivered with a scathing thread.
“‘Does she have editors?’ was just emphatically answered.”
Picking up where fake news had left off earlier in the week, Rubin’s most recent opinion piece attempted to score points on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) with a retread of an already debunked and corrected whiff delivered by Business Insider.
“Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism,” the Post columnist titled her effort to slam America’s Governor over claims of an exodus from The Sunshine State.
“DeSantis likes to brag that more people are moving to Florida than ever,” Rubin wrote. “Not so fast. ‘An estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021. That’s more than any other state, including New York or California, the two states that have received the most attention for outbound migration during the pandemic,’ according to the American Community Survey released in June tracking state-by-state migration.”
Cooke highlighted this excerpt as he described the op-ed, “In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made–and then corrected–on Tuesday. ‘Does she have editors?’ was just emphatically answered.”
In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made—and then corrected—on Tuesday. “Does she have editors?” was just emphatically answered. pic.twitter.com/HeigB7gL2c
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2023
“She doesn’t know anything, or care that she doesn’t know anything–and nobody at the Post seems to mind,” he continued after pointing out the previously reported publication and correction from Business Insider that left them admitting the opposite was true and stating, “We got it wrong.”
‘We got it wrong’: Business Insider left with egg on its face with fleeing Floridians story https://t.co/LRrVXqzExh via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 12, 2023
“It really is jarring to see. When I’ve written for the Post and the Times, I’ve been fact-checked until I bled. [If I] wrote that there are 50 states, I was asked for a citation,” Cooke contended. “That’s fine–good, even. But, as is evident if you read those papers, it only happens in one direction.”
It really is jarring to see. When I’ve written for the Post and the Times, I’ve been fact-checked until I bled. I if wrote that there are 50 states, I was asked for a citation. That’s fine—good, even. But, as is evident if you read those papers, it only happens in one direction.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2023
He wasn’t alone in lambasting Rubin as The Federalist’s editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway responded to the Travis County GOP chair Matt Mackowiak’s suggestion “Jen Rubin is an embarrassment to everyone at WaPo.”
“No,” she asserted. “The Washington Post is 100% responsible for the hiring and employment of this person. They WANT to publish her propaganda. That’s WHY they employ her.”
No. The Washington Post is 100% responsible for the hiring and employment of this person. They WANT to publish her propaganda. That’s WHY they employ her. https://t.co/0Go31ywxgS
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 16, 2023
Rubin got the Community Notes treatment on Twitter and WaPo ultimately issued a correction to the op-ed that stated “A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected.”
After losing out on a threepeat in the Fourth Annual Comfortably Smug Liberal Hack Tournament, having been beaten out by her colleague, consummate crybully and ultimate champion Taylor Lorenz in the semifinals, Rubin’s latest op-ed could set her back on course for the winner’s circle next year.
Kicking off a slew of shots taken against Rubin and the Post over the op-ed, Cooke concluded his thread with a quote tweet that suggested, “in our defense, we had a deep-seated psychological need for this to be true.”
As so often, @iowahawkblog put it best. https://t.co/7XGQXSzDA5
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 15, 2023
Are a couple of editors too expensive for a top dollar media company?
— Aedwyne de León (@EMPDL) July 15, 2023
How do we know “Democracy Dies in Darkness” isn’t actually a mission statement?
— Craig Murphy (@CraigMurphy8881) July 15, 2023
Maybe the editors can’t stand to read her either, so they never noticed the glaring error.
— William Warford (@WilliamWar16065) July 15, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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