Althouse: Captions that look like headlines turn the front page of The Washington Post into a rancid mess.

August 17, 2019

Captions that look like headlines turn the front page of The Washington Post into a rancid mess.

What I saw on first look at The Washington Post:

On closer look:

44 comments:

Darrell said...: Are they marked for assassination by circling with a pencil?
Odd. But apt.; 8/17/19, 10:21 AM
tcrosse said...: Odd that each of them would be shown peering out of an asshole.; 8/17/19, 10:25 AM
Fernandinande said...: Mexico isn't sending us their finest seaweed.; 8/17/19, 10:31 AM
Bob Boyd said...: I'd click just to find out how Trump caused that seaweed to come ashore in Mexico.; 8/17/19, 10:32 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Odd that each of them would be shown peering out of an asshole.

Assholes within assholes.; 8/17/19, 10:34 AM
Fernandinande said...: "Terrifying 'giant fork' Chinese forces prepare to use on Hong Kong protesters"

I woulda thunk they'd use terrifying giant chopsticks.; 8/17/19, 10:41 AM
traditionalguy said...: A Marxist Revolutionary can't get no respect. It's a Rodney Dangerfield clone group. With Fauxcahontas being the best one of the group.; 8/17/19, 10:43 AM
Dave Begley said...: It really is a clown show. What one of those Dems can you see as Commander-in-Chief? Which one inspires you? Which one could make America great again?; 8/17/19, 10:51 AM
Fernandinande said...: "Seaweed", by Hank Longfellow, for Miss Spinster's 3rd period "How to Talk Good English" class.

When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Storm-wind of the equinox,
Landword in his wrath he scourges
The toiling surges,
Laden with seaweed from the rocks:

From Bermuda's reefs; from edges
Of sunken ledges,
In some far-off, bright Azore;
From Bahama, and the dashing
Silver-flashing
Surges of San Salvador;

etc., etc.; 8/17/19, 10:54 AM
Dave Begley said...: I've seen 16 of those clowns in person. All losers. I would, however, like to date Tulsi. Aloha, baby!; 8/17/19, 10:54 AM
mccullough said...: Messam is mayor of a bigger city than Mayor Pete. But he hasn’t gotten any traction because white liberals are racists.; 8/17/19, 10:59 AM
Mark said...: The Washington Post is a rancid mess. It lost whatever credibility it had left long ago. May as well read the papers from North Korea or China.; 8/17/19, 11:10 AM
AllenS said...: tcrosse, what you are looking at are called polyps. Just had a colonoscopy a couple of weeks ago.; 8/17/19, 11:17 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: “Rancid mess” is apt.; 8/17/19, 11:32 AM
Joe Biden, America's Putin said...: Beta Boy sure is a dick.; 8/17/19, 12:02 PM
Limited blogger said...: So Trump can go ahead with plans to re-decorate the WH?; 8/17/19, 12:30 PM
Drago said...: The Long Knives are out for Biden now.

The DNC-New York Times has published the "inside" story of how obama tried to talk Biden out of running for President.

In Biden's defense, although he agreed with obama in that moment he quickly forgot he had the conversation at all!!

(Note for Snopes "fact checkers": Sarcasm and not meant to be taken as literally true); 8/17/19, 12:39 PM
Drago said...: And just think, it was only months ago that Inga was cackling like a mad hyena about how "scared" the republicans were of sleepy creepy handsy forgetful low-energy low-IQ corrupt Joe Biden!!; 8/17/19, 12:40 PM
Phil 314 said...: This should have a tag “How Drudge changed journalism”; 8/17/19, 12:51 PM
Danno said...: Blogger AllenS said...tcrosse, what you are looking at are called polyps.

Definitely precancerous or cancerous ones at that. Not a benign one in the bunch.; 8/17/19, 12:58 PM
gadfly said...: All day, all night, Marianne;
Who the hell do you think I am - Superman?; 8/17/19, 1:05 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: So many turds have to clog up the system.; 8/17/19, 1:39 PM
Dave Begley said...: Drago is right. Biden is finished. Obama doesn't want to be associated with a loser. Maybe prepping the battlefield for Michelle to step in.

I recall reading a New Yorker article when Hillary and Obama were running against each other. The story was a clear signal to the "right" people that it was now okay to dump Hillary and go with Barack.; 8/17/19, 2:04 PM
tcrosse said...: So many turds have to clog up the system.

We need Star Fleet to orbit Uranus and wipe out Klingons.; 8/17/19, 2:15 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Leave my Uranus out of this!; 8/17/19, 2:30 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Drago has predicted that the current clutter of clown car Dems blow each other up, and draft Michele at the Convention to rescue them.

If he gets this right, we must bow before him and his political acumen.; 8/17/19, 2:46 PM
tim in vermont said...: Let the invisible “powers that be” winnow down the field! It’s too hard for us plebes!; 8/17/19, 2:50 PM
tim in vermont said...: Remember when “the mentioners” used to do the hard work for us?; 8/17/19, 2:51 PM
narciso said...: it's like extended Hollywood square, with tulsi in the center right square,; 8/17/19, 2:58 PM
gilbar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/17/19, 3:07 PM
narciso said...: sorry center left square,; 8/17/19, 3:08 PM
gilbar said...: Dave Begley said...
It really is a clown show. What one of those Dems can you see as Commander-in-Chief? Which one inspires you? Which one could make America great again?

Yes, BUT; can you think of Any one of them, that IF nominated, would receive less than 44% of the vote? My bleeding heart liberal, life long democrat mother HATES Sanders; and says "it'd be HARD for her to vote for him", by which she means: In order to vote for him, he'd have to be the democrat nominee.

If Joseph Stalin was the democrat nominee, it would REALLY Trouble my mom (what with the facts that he's not a citizen and he's not alive); It would trouble her SO MUCH, that she would have Misgivings while voting for him; 8/17/19, 3:09 PM
Drago said...: BAG: "If he gets this right, we must bow before him and his political acumen."

Nonsense!

1 chilled seedless watermelon would suffice.; 8/17/19, 3:18 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: The problem with the clown car Dems is that they've hijacked the public schools and universities and are raising a lotta clown voters. Also, they cheat with illegals, so there's that.; 8/17/19, 3:25 PM
n.n said...: It's time for DPC or Democrat Population Control. NOW, will those who are still viable, please step forward... Here lies your careers. Be wary of the double-edged scalpel.

they cheat with illegals

There are overlapping and converging interests; but, yeah, democratic gerrymandering, not limited to civil rights violations, is a clear and progressive problem.; 8/17/19, 4:04 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Saw yet another article about Trump's mental health and the 25th A:

MSNBC Host, Analysts Speculate About Removing Trump From Office.

That's like, I guess, the bottom story of the month: "MSNBC Still MSNBC".

But the hilarious thing is all these guys will fall in line for Slow Joe even as he starts to drool.; 8/17/19, 4:25 PM
Joe Biden, America's Putin said...: Can we remove MSDNC from the airwaves - due to its unhealthy mental state?
How many lies can a "news" network pimp and still be called "news"?; 8/17/19, 4:28 PM
Fen said...: Snopes FactChecK:

False.

The 24 Democrat Candidates did not appear on the Brady Bunch, as per the Babylon Bee.; 8/17/19, 4:51 PM
Narr said...: They're in allforgettable order.

Narr
No crosshairs?; 8/17/19, 5:53 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: There are easily more than 39 Democrats in that rancid mess.

gilbar: How true. We are doomed. It was nice while it lasted.; 8/17/19, 8:42 PM
wildswan said...: I think the Mueller Report and the Mueller collapse has made a difference in the way that I, the open Trump supporter, am treated. It's headed back into normal zone, a land I thought I would never again see in my lifetime. This development goes with Juan Williams talking about how people want to be bored and so might vote for Biden. (Vote Joe - The dullest knife in the box) "Want to be bored" means "tired of all the winning" in campaign spintalk or, more bluntly, the TDSers are thoroughly demoralized by finding out that the Trump-Russia collusion was fake news. The hard left just moves on to the next lie (Racist America Sucks - Vote for The One who Thinks You Stink.) but the normals are wary. And the "thought leaders" need to recover from looking stupid which may take longer than they think.; 8/18/19, 6:00 AM
Rusty said...: Mark @11:10
Are you kidding? It's the best high school newspaper in the country!
The high school newspaper of record.; 8/18/19, 7:16 AM
CJinPA said...: I'm late but you can find funny examples of this at:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WrongCaptions; 8/18/19, 2:27 PM
Iman said...: The Democrat Party is in dire need of an enema.; 10/26/19, 11:00 AM