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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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Saturday, December 20, 2003

Posted 9:37 PM by Gene

Congressman V-Chip screams, WHY DIDN'T WE TAKE CARE OF LIBYA THE WAY WE TOOK CARE OF IRAQ?!?!? You forget, V-Chip, we did bomb them -- in 1986, an action popular with Europeans -- and Democrats. (Remember how our jets had to make a WIDE TURN to avoid France?) And conceding Moammar is a lizard and a nutcase, he did plead for mercy, unlike Saddam, who always gave the West the finger. Moreover, Iraq never agreed to unconditionally end its WMD programs the way Libya did. It was foolish for Tony Blair to call Moammar "courageous," but the noose has not exactly gone slack on him, especially after 9/11. I suspect the Loose Screw of Tripoli didn't want an angry American military bearing down on him again after our near total subjugation of Iraq's forces. And to the Pan Am 103 victims' families: I don't like Kissinger realism either, but at least now we can hope for a democratic, prosperous Libya, a hope that didn't exist before, a Libya that can apologize for its history.

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