Megan Carpentier, the new associate editor over at Wonkette (who you, the voters, think looks most like Miss Piggy), has written Big Head DC a personal note:

I wanted to take a second to write to thank you for linking to a bunch of my posts. I hadn’t actually ever heard of your blog before I took the job, but John and Jim both mentioned that you’d been putting up a bunch of links to my stuff and promoting my new job, which is really sweet of you to do. My beat is on more of the policy-issues type stuff than the inter-DC gossip because of my background, but when I finally get a chance to look around at the other stuff that I’ve been missing, I’ll definitely check you out! Good luck with your blog!

Awww, sweet gal. Flattery will get her everywhere!

Earlier: New Wonkette Editor Bans Commenter Because He Thinks She’s Not Pretty

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The reign of Alex Pareene is truly over, kids!

We just received a message from Wonkette’s new associate editor Jim Newell (who’s got quite a potty mouth on him, we hear, but not quite as big a potty mouth as new editor John Clarke Jr.) about that whole Wonkette stole copyrighted material from the GW Hatchet item we wrote earlier this morning.

“[W]e did take down the post with the Ben Stein photo yesterday afternoon as per their request,” Newell tells Big Head DC. Which, let’s face it, has helped Newell to become our favorite Wonkette editor in ages (he actually communicates, which is unique amongst that breed — God, remember the time when former editor Pareene hid under a table because he was having a panic attack and was afraid to talk to Karen Feld at a party?).

Don’t worry, we’re not forgetting that Wonkette still has a second post up mocking the GW kids to high heaven for bringing the whole copyright violation thing to their attention in the first place, which isn’t exactly fair, since the multi-million Gawker Media owns Wonkette, and, instead of mocking the kids, they could have easily afforded to pay them for the photo. Read more…

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