By Hal Brown (All Daily Kos stories)
The Washington Post, like other major newspapers, isn't known for allowing authors to compose their own headlines or titles. With the exception of tabloids, most of the headlines in newspapers are merely descriptive rather than clever. I was pleasantly surprised to see this both descriptive, clever, and snarky OpEd title: "The Greene-House gas effect is toxic. Republicans won’t crack a window" used for this excellent essay. I have no way of knowing whether the Monica Hesse wrote the headline for her OpEd today. None of her other essays this month had a snarky title.
“The Greene-House gas effect is toxic. Republicans won’t crack a window” was apparently first published in the lifestyle rather than the politics section, probably because this is the section the author writes for. It ended up featured on the main page. In the past month more than half of Hesse’s nine stories were about or related to politics. It was, however, the featured article on the online front page (click to enlarge):
More stories by Monica Hesse and about her:
Education: Bryn Mawr College, B.A. in English; Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in Nonfiction writing. Monica Hesse is a columnist for The Washington Post's Style section, who frequently writes about gender and its impact on society. She's the author of several novels, most recently, "They Went Left."Honors & Awards:
- Society for Features Journalism, first place, Narrative Storytelling, 2017
- Livingston Award, finalist in Local Reporting, 2015
- Washington Post Publishers Award, 2014
- Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, winner, 2014.
- Society for Features Journalism, third place, General Feature, 2014
- James Beard Award, finalist in Humor, 2014
- GLAAD Media Awards, finalist, Outstanding Newspaper Article, 2010
- Edgar Allan Poe Award presented by Mystery Writers of America, winner, Best Young-Adult Mystery, 2016
- Indies Choice Book Awards, finalist, Young Adult Book of the Year, 2016
Since many of you don’t subscribe to The Washington Post here are some choice excerpts from today’s story:
- And so on Wednesday, House Republicans again discussed how to mitigate the toxic Greene-House gas effect. The current pressing issue: her apparent perpetuating of the falsehood that the Parkland school shooting, which left 17 dead, was a “false flag” staged event (in 2018 someone had referred to it as such on Facebook; Greene wrote back, “Exactly!”).
- She has expanded our taxonomy of noxious White women. Previously we spoke of Beckys, blithely unaware of how they benefit — constantly, passively — from systemic White feminine privilege. Or we spoke of Karens, who are aware of their privilege and strategically using it to bend the system to their will (Weapon of choice: “I’d like to speak to the manager”). Greene represents a whole other level: a superwarrior who doesn’t just bend the system; she is the system. She is making the rules, she is making the reality.
- My grandmother’s name was Marjorie, so it gives me no pleasure to say this, but: If you are a woman with substantial power — whose utterances are covered as news — who is nonetheless yelling that you are being silenced and disenfranchised, then we need a new term for that, and the term for that is “Marjorie.”
- Marjorie has moved on, and she’s moved her party with her. Out of Trump’s political boot camp and into the halls of Congress, Greene has created a stain that House Republicans seem too afraid to scrub out, worried that it might make them toxic. She has oozed further than any Marjorie has oozed before.
Monica Hesse is a writer who brings a fresh perspective to politics. She reminds me Jennifer Senior who went from being being a daily book critic for The New York Times and writing a best-selling book, "All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood" to writing about politics and coining the term “preening narcissist” to describe Trump. (I wrote about it in my most read Daily Kos story here.)
Being able to read these relatively new author’s opinion pieces is part of what makes subscribing to The New York Times and The Washington Post worth the money for me.
Addendum
I wonder if she has an embroidery machine and makes them herself. They run from $1000 to much more.
Update: Below, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) arrives before a vote in the House on a resolution that would punish her for incendiary remarks she made supporting violence against Democrats. (photo Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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Is the excerpt below about about Greene saying that a dark point in her life lead her to QAnon likely, possible, or is it just a cover her ass lie?
Many Republicans now plan to give Greene a chance. She received a standing ovation at the conference meeting after she disavowed many of her previous beliefs. She told a story about a dark point in her life when she apparently turned to QAnon, according to a person in the room. She said that was a mistake, walked back suggestions that 9/11 and school shootings were a hoax and apologized for how her past statements were affecting them all. After she spoke, even Rep. TOM REED (R-N.Y.), a leader of moderate Republicans, stood up to thank her for sharing her story and indicated he’d give her a chance. Politico
Greene has more than 340,000 followers on Twitter. If she really wanted to apologize she could do it there. Instead this is her most recent tweet: