Jason Cherkis is almost Darth Vader! His mentor Darth Sidius, aka the Washington City Paper’s editor-in-chief Erik Wemple, has taught him well. Taught him well to hate on The Washington Post, he has.

“OK, I know I’m a bit late on getting to this. But after reading Howard Kurtz’s profile of Campbell Brown last night, I couldn’t help but be a little miffed,” writes Cherkis today. ”With its headline, ‘At CNN, Taking On the Cable Guys,’ the piece had the potential to explore how Brown was going to succeed in a world dominated by ranting men. Instead, we get Kurtz serving up way too many details that have nothing to do with Brown’s journalism.”

Hmm. Kind of like how when the City Paper did a story about investigative reporter Murray Waas and wrote extensively about his problems with landlords, his battles with cancer, and his personal relationships? A story that Cherkis played a key role in reporting?

As Anne Schroeder might say: “Not sayin’, just sayin’.

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Pictured: Wonkette’s Alex Pareene, dressed as a pale hipster hobby horse; DCist’s Sommer Mathis, looking eerily like Alex; and FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin, sweating through his eyebrows.

Earlier: Big Head DC crashes The Onion launch party.

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National Journal writer/freelance God Murray Waas is getting some heat — and not from the City Paper for a change. Bloggers have been griping about his use of the word “irregardless,” which is indeed a word, but not a word that a journalist of Waas’ stature should be using, apparently.

“All right, all right I heard you,” he wrote in his blog last night. “I apologize to any reader…for the use of the word ‘irregardless’…in my Huckabee post earlier this day. Who would have thought anyone was even reading in the first place? The post has since been updated and changed, with the word ‘irrespective’ used in the place of ‘irregardless.’ If that isn’t correct, aargh….”

If anyone else has any more word-y complaints, the journalist has this special offer: become a proof reader/copy editor of his lovely blog. Um, how much does it pay, Murray?

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