Kyle Saunders

Kyle Saunders is an aspiring media critic and gossip columnist, who hopes to make his mark. His role model is Betsy Rothstein, although he read TMZ as well.

One of Washington’s most enduring mysteries deepened Thursday, when Politico reported that former FishbowlDC editor Betsy Rothstein would join The Daily Caller as a blogger. The news interrupted a week of schadenfreude on the part of Betsy Rothstein’s detractors, who had exulted in the abrupt end of her tenure at FishbowlDC—after a local publicist sued Rothstein for libel.

Along the way, the subject of conversation among the world’s many Betsy Rothstein obsessives had evolved from “How is Betsy Rothstein still employed?” to “Who would hire Betsy Rothstein after everything she’s done?” Betsy Rothstein’s new employer, after all, had just hired a writer who wrote four posts about the size of a TV host’s breasts.

Last week’s celebratory messages about her departure and Thursday’s befuddlement over her hiring, however,