{"id":197744,"date":"2008-01-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/john-solomon-comes-home-to-the-moonie-times\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T05:20:00","slug":"john-solomon-comes-home-to-the-moonie-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/john-solomon-comes-home-to-the-moonie-times\/","title":{"rendered":"John Solomon Comes Home&#8230;To the Moonie Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Solomon has <a href=\"http:\/\/poynter.org\/forum\/view_post.asp?id=13046\">been appointed executive editor of the <s>Moonie<\/s> Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As to why this is coming home, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/010403.php\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> has the definitive word, &#8220;Here&#8217;s what one former colleague of Solomon&#8217;s said last week: &#8216;I worked [X] years in the same office as Solomon, sometimes with him. The consensus: he&#8217;s lazy, and takes hit jobs handed him on a platter by opps research teams (and anyone will do.) And doesn&#8217;t do much to clean it up. I also know one of his fave and frequent sources is Barbara Comstock, former DOJ spxwoman and GOP attack dog.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/14\/AR2008011402688.html\">Washington Post announcement of this move<\/a>, he currently works for the Post, Mr. Solomon, ever the complete tool, says, &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be about being <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fair and balanced<\/span>&#8220;.  Straight out of Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you want a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/01\/14\/solomon-wash-times\/\"> rundown on a few of his misdeeds<\/a>, Think Progress has the scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Solomon has been appointed executive editor of the Moonie Washington Times. As to why this is coming home, Talking Points Memo has the definitive word, &#8220;Here&#8217;s what one former colleague of Solomon&#8217;s said last week: &#8216;I worked [X] years in the same office as Solomon, sometimes with him. The consensus: he&#8217;s lazy, and takes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,974,1064,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}