The 2024 presidential election, as liberals were fond of pointing out, was a referendum on "weird." And the weirdos lost.
Some of those weirdos you came to know well, like Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor best known for his mystic theatrical performances and ambiguous gender. Others you've likely never heard of, even if you may be familiar with their general brand of weirdness.
Included among the latter category of weirdo is just about every employee at Politico, a Virginia-based left-wing political blog. Inside their office, located many, many floors below the Washington Free Beacon, is perhaps the king of those weirdos, reporter Ben Lefebvre.
Beyond the obvious weirdness surrounding his last name (we don't know how to pronounce it either), Lefebvre worked hard to drag his fellow weird Democrats across the finish line with stories on the energy sector, which he covers (we're using that term kindly). His dogged reporting included one headline that read, "Harris campaign pledges she won't ban fracking after Trump accusation."
What was that accusation? It was unclear given his sloppy writing. A Free Beacon reporter emailed Lefebvre to ask for some clarity. Crucial context: Harris repeatedly pledged to ban fracking in her failed 2020 presidential run.
"Thanks for pointing out the grammar error," Lefebvre told the Free Beacon reporter. He then offered his "condolences for working at the Free Beacon" in a fit of spastic rage.
Au contraire, Monsieur Lefebvre. It is we who should be offering condolences.
Lefebvre appears to be plagued by a variety of afflictions, not including his day job. For years he was tormented by the prospect of catching COVID-19. In June 2020, he complained about a neighbor who showed up "without a mask to a kid's outside birthday party in the community courtyard." Months later, he went as far as to publicly detail his efforts to dodge a hostile cough from a MAGA man who drove alongside him in Washington, D.C. That man, having seen Lefebvre driving to Union Station in a mask, "rolled down his window and started fake coughing at my car."
In other posts, Lefebvre recounted how his "testosterone" was "raging" after he fixed a broken toilet and lamented the fact that his wife mocks his disgustingly long nose hairs. He also recounted a "really vivid dream" he had, during which John McCain "showed up to the funeral of my father-in-law" before talking to Joe Biden about how "the country was ungovernable." (You'll have to take our word on those ones. Ben deleted them earlier this year before locking his X account.)
All of that is to say that Lefebvre is weird as well. And while the obvious mental issues he suffers from are unfortunate for him (and his wife), they've proven very entertaining for normal Americans. As such, we salute Lefebvre and designate him a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year. We also issue a retroactive nod to the MAGA hat-wearing, fake-coughing D.C. driver who broke Lefebvre's brain. We apologize for not recognizing your talents sooner.
