Politico takes on The Onion

[GeorgeGist]

The Hunks of Washington

Washington is a magical place, a place where the onetime victims of boyhood gym-locker entombment can grow up to become the objects of affection, admiration, compulsive fandom, BlogSpot pages and Cafe Press T-shirts.


It is, safe to say, the only place where Ari Fleischer could have a stalker.


The haters call Washington “Hollywood for ugly people,” but they’ve got it all wrong. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholders inside the Beltway see beauty where others might miss it.


Beauty, says Tammy Haddad, is “the people who make things work in our town because they’re able to move and motivate masses of people, which is really extraordinary



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23730.html#ixzz0IWx4crTU&C

[gratuitous]

1. Fleischer calls it stalking

The rest of us would call it a process server.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Well, yes, DC is Hollywood for ugly people. But being good looking still helps. nt

[Bicoastal]

3. Nothing Onion-related in this article...

...am I missing something?

[monmouth]

5. That being the only reason I clicked....sigh...n/t

[Demit]

4. Not bloody likely. Just that first sentence alone makes me cringe, for the bad writing.