Posted on 10/03/2009 10:31:32 AM PDT by rabidralph
Here’s your chance to put your opinions to the test -- and win the opportunity to write a weekly column and a launching pad for your opinionating career!
Start making your case. Use the entry form to send us a short opinion essay (400 words or less) pegged to a topic in the news and an additional paragraph (100 words or less) on yourself and why you should win. Entries will be judged on the basis of style, intelligence and freshness of argument, but not on whether Post editors agree or disagree with your point of view. Entry deadline: Oct. 21, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Paid Opinion BUMP
*Picks Jaw Up Off Floor*
Ralph posted? Wa-Hoo! Do more of that!
Anyhow, very interesting! However, something is afoot if they’re considering anyone other than a rabid, drooling commie to write a column for them, LOL!
Do they see the writing on the wall as reflected in their dwindling readership which equals dwindling advertising dollars?
I love it! :)
Hey, if you can spare the time, why not take their money for as long as they last as a paper? I think every FReeper should enter. They'd be flooded with entries and chances are all the finalists could be FReepers. How fun would that be?
That would be terrific fun! And we’d be a lot cheaper than paying the royalties to run, say, Ann Coulter or Dr. Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, etc. ;)
Thanks for the heads-up and the vote of confidence. I will look into it. I canceled my subscription to the WP after last year’s election and switched to the WT. I just couldn’t take their extreme partisanship any longer. I had been subscribing to the WP for over thirty years, on and off, during the times I was in the country and for the past 15 years. They are now trying to destroy Bob McDonnell similar to the way they went after George Allen using the “macaca” incident.
Why waste your time? I wrote the word "Bush" on a piece of paper, took a dump on it and them mailed it in. How could I possibly not win?
Ping.
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