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Not surprisingly, the town is abuzz with the latest news from this morning's Times: Seventeen editor Atoosa Rubenstein chows down at Red Lobster early and often. But, say some anonymous correspondents, is it even worse than Atoosa's carnal love of nasty, foul, greasy breaded shrimp products? Here's the report from our Special Correspondent on Teen Girl Magazine Issues:

I think we need to seriously consider the possibility that NYT media writer David Carr may be having "relations" with Atoosa Rubenstein, the crazy Iranian Jew of Cosmogirl and Seventeen fame. I think this is dubious journalism at best, and at worst, raises suspicions that Carr may be slipping Rubenstein the tube steak (Do they serve tube steak at Red Lobster?).

Rubenstein's letter from the editor in Seventeen this month complains about people in the media unfairly bashing her, alluding to mediabistro's message boards — the same message boards that published the memo from her assistant warning staffers not to make eye contact with her. Well, she's an evil psycho that eats at Red Lobster — and gets a lot of positive press from the men who get trapped in her maniacal deep-fried she-web.

The woman, it's quite obvious, is an egomaniacal compulsive liar who is shaping the minds of an entire generation of teenage girls. I suspect she's forming a cult that will eventually threaten our very democracy with her pubescent, makeup-wearing storm troopers. Next thing you know, Seventeen will be declaring that brown shirts are in.


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