Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:00 AM by Gene

One of USAOKAY!!!!!'s most annoying traits from early on (now largely disappeared) was its insistent use of the first person plural when describing America. What made this especially annoying is that news hacks constitutionally speak in the third person plural. News hacks aren't us; they're our superiors, part of a college-government-clique-like force so brilliant and so superior to the human race they can view their consumers as digits, as part of an angry mob, as peons to be ruled with brute force, as retards to be laughed at.

When Little Jon turns his rag into a Democratic Party campaign document he is clearly speaking in the third person plural. Yet he and other news hacks would presume to speak in the first person plural because some part of them presumes they're speaking for us, the Pygmies they'd otherwise sneer at. It's precisely this disconnect that helps explain our ever increasing hatred of media, and media's ever shrinking returns.

And somehow even Jonny "The Thinker" Alter must concede the election may not be the unalloyed triumph he and the other hacks are fervently hoping for.