White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has officially become the Washington Post‘s Apple of Discord, tossed into the op-ed section and starting a civil war. After running a piece by Dana Milbank suggesting that most of the current problems facing the Obama Administration were a product of the president not listening to his Chief of Staff, it published a counterpoint by David Broder. Now Matt Yglesias chimes in.

Turns out we are not the only ones paying attention to Glenn Beck’s immediate influence on the world of book sales. Glenn Beck apparently also has an eye on the rocketing Amazon rankings of the books he recommends (even the evil ones!). Beck is the new master of literary top ten list.

It’s no great secret that Senator Joe Lieberman has enraged many liberals with his vocal, well-publicized threats to derail the health care bill under consideration.
Dana Milbank’s theory: Lieberman is just an old-school moderate, which is something today’s hyperpolarized Senate can’t handle.

Get it? Because her name is Blanche. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank delivers an impassioned Sunday column today, using a literary allusion and extended metaphor to describe the dealmaking that occurred yesterday in the Senate. It’s all very Southern — straight out of a Tennessee Williams play, he contends. It’s a perfectly frustrating and instructive Sunday read.

Though the Power Grid is often a lesson in maintaining influence over time (see: Anna Wintour), due to its automated algorithm, movement in the ranks can often be traced directly to a piece of news or media event. And it’s not the movement that is interesting in and of itself, but the reasons behind it.

This week, Erin Andrews is a perfect example.

It’s no secret that we’re obsessed with competition and we get our kicks from big movement on the Power Grid. Recently malady has been responsible for movement in the rankings: just look at Dr. Sanjay Gupta and New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin . But who were the other big movers and shakers, and why the fluctuation? Find out inside.

Seriously? Sometimes, no comment is needed. This from our inbox this morning: WashPost Launches America’s Next Great Pundit Competition Aspiring pundits across the country have the chance to be “America’s Next Great Pundit” by entering The Washington Post’s political columnist competition. Starting today The Washington Post opinions section is asking people around the country to [...]

Where were you a year ago today? If you are a political journalist — or media hanger-on — chances are you were living out of a suitcase at the 2008 Presidential Conventions, with the Dems nominating Barack Obama in Denver and the GOP nominating John McCain in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Remember those heady days?

WaPo executive editor Marcus Brauchli has put an end to Mouthpiece Theater, Post staffers Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza‘s satirical web series, Howard Kurtz reported this afternoon. Brauchli was under pressure from groups such as Women, Action and the Media, that took offense at Milbank’s none-too-subtle allusion that, if Clinton were invited to the Beer Summit, she would have chosen to drink “Mad Bitch” beer.

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank brewed up a mess of trouble for himself, yesterday, when a satirical video he appeared in stepped way over the line. The subject of the video was President Obama’s Thursday “Beer Summit.” But the comment that started all the trouble? Suggesting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have a “Mad Bitch” beer. Ooops.

The recent kerfuffle between Nico Pitney (Huffington Post) and Dana Milbank (Washington Post) over a clumsy exchange in a White House press conference brings to mind two media mavens rarely mentioned in the same sentence: Marshall McLuhan and Thomas Jefferson. Seen in the context of their ideas about media and government, a tiff between a [...]

Nico Pitney won the clash with Dana Milbank today on “Reliable Sources,” but not on the merits – through classic tactics of going on the offensive, changing the subject, and comparing apples to oranges. I’m really surprised that Milbank wasn’t ready for it. But though they both scored a few points, I actually feel like [...]