New WaPo 'pundit' is Rhee's ex

[tonysam]

Earlier, I mentioned that the Washington Post named Kevin Huffman the winner of its first-ever "America's Next Great Pundit" contest.

But it should also be noted that Huffman's ex-wife is schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, an editorial page favorite and cover star of the first revamped Post magazine. In that 4,200-word piece on Rhee in September, the author mentioned that she didn't want to discuss aspects of her personal life, including Huffman and their two children.

However, when Time profiled Rhee last year, Huffman spoke on the record about their relationship.

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I didn't think his screeds were particularly exceptional, but now I know why he was picked.

[pscot]

1. Are you suggesting the Post is anything less than

Fair and Balanced? Fie upon you.

[tonysam]

2. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[YvonneCa]

3. Didn't she just get engaged...

...again? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2009/11/wedding_bells_for_michelle_rhe.html

[tonysam]

4. I know Byron York or somebody

was asking questions about Rhee and Johnson that spread all over the education blogs. Of course York is right-leaning in his writings:

On June 27, 2008, Michelle Rhee, head of the Washington, D.C., school system, paid a visit to Gerald Walpin, who was inspector general of the government volunteer organization AmeriCorps.

At the time, Walpin was investigating a California private school known as St. Hope, which was founded by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star and friend of Rhee's who was running for mayor of Sacramento. St. Hope had received about $850,000 in AmeriCorps money, and Walpin's investigators were looking into charges that Johnson had misused those funds by assigning paid volunteer tutors to run errands for him and wash his car, as well as making them take part in political activities.

In the course of the investigation, some young female AmeriCorps volunteers also charged that Johnson had made inappropriate sexual advances toward them and offered one of them $1,000 a month to keep quiet.

Rhee, who later became engaged to marry Johnson, had been on St. Hope's board of directors before taking over as chief of the District of Columbia system. Her apparent goal, as she visited Walpin, was to vouch for Johnson.

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