THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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I still believe he can win, solely on name recognition. By rights, he shouldn't be in the race. And remember, before anyone mentions the wonderful Jesse, he had a honeymoon, and he had a severe falling-out with the public, and he ultimately failed in office. And before anyone mentions Ronald Reagan, he had the backing of Walt Disney and Jack Wrather (the Lone Ranger producer). He didn't strike out on an ego-driven whim.
Meantime Andy S. thinks Ah-NULT's gay, and the Professor cites him approvingly, which makes them both asses.
And speaking of the MasterBlogger, he quotes his coproduction "Lileks":
Will he win? Well, he’ll bring new voters to the polls - we saw this in Minnesota with Jesse. People who never voted will find it cool to vote for Arnie, and even though they might not be the most sophisticated participant [sic] in the process, they’ll probably intuit that a vote isn’t just a thumbs-up statement. It means something.
Yeah, it means they'll vote for somebody with name recognition who bombs, so they'll figure, you can't vote for anybody, so they'll stop voting. Honest, the big-name bloggers stop thinking when they start typing.
UPDATE: In some places Ah-NULT is distinctly unenamored (caveat: it's a NewsMax).