September 1, 2010 | 6:30 PM | By

Vincent Gray Calls out WaPo (sort of)

FILED UNDER: Elections, Media, 2010 Elections, City Paper, Vince Gray

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Did you know the Post has its own zip code?

Look what I missed, while I was running around looking for my “Reporting for Dummies” book; after today’s debate at the Newseum, the City Paper’s Loose Lips got mischievous.

When Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli went over to Gray after the debate to introduce himself, LL couldn’t help but try and stir the pot, asking Gray what he thought of the Post’s editorial page. Which, in case you didn’t know, is very pro-Fenty. (And, also in case you didn’t know, a part of the paper Brauchli has nothing to do with.)

Gray laughed, while Brauchli quickly said: “I’m in the news department, technically.”

Gray stopped laughing to ask a somewhat uncomfortable-looking Brauchli, “Is there any obligation to have facts when you do the editorials?”

The Post’s Local Editor Emilio Garcia-Ruiz immediately intervened to introduce himself, but that didn’t help:

“We’re the news department, I think, you know,” Brauchli said. “Anyway, thank you for being here.”

Gray: “Okay. That was a non-answer you know.”

Brauchli: “It was.”

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