Washington Post
Media observers consider New York Post scribe Andrea Peyser‘s “unforgiving, exuberantly spiteful columns” a guilty pleasure, writes Jason Horowitz. “New York Magazine described her as ‘the local Madame Defarge, shaking her fist as the tumbrels roll by. The New York Observer called her a “roving Valkyrie reporter-commentator” and Web site the Awl on Tuesday dubbed her the New York Post ‘harridan.’”
It was no accident that Peyser stood front and center at Anthony Weiner’s news conference on Monday, writes Horowitz.
She stood in front of the front row of seated reporters, her shadow and trademark bob projected onto the wooden lectern from which Weiner spoke.
“Are you going to split up?”
Weiner replied that he and his wife intended to “weather” the storm. Peyser was not satisfied. “Where is she? Where is she? Sir, where is she?”
“She is not here,” Weiner said.
“Where is she?” pushed Peyser, who later asked, “You said you were on the phone. Did you have phone sex with these women? Did you ever have some kind of an affair with some of these women?”
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