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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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    Tuesday, October 09, 2007

    Posted 9:11 AM by Gene

    Before we start talking of the "dynastification of American politics", Econowiz, we should remember Papa was overthrown by Slick; that Slick won a second term thanks to the inept campaigning of Sen. Viagra; that Dubya won a second term thanks to a strong protest vote against Sen. Hein-TZZZ; and that Hillary's been campaigning for president since before 1992. As to dynasties, the Adamses had one; that pretty well ended when John Quincy Adams lost to Andrew Jackson. So did the Roosevelts; but that ended with FDR's death, and despite the help from machine politics his successor Harry Truman was probably as true an outsider as ever was. The Kennedys', of course, was horribly mutilated by assassinations; even so it still had the "vigah", but the second generation was too involved in personal self-destruction to further it. Given the strong odor of the Bush name and the thin Clinton bloodline it is unlikely more of their heirs will win high office. Of course we should worry about ossifying dynasties, but we should worry more about an ossifying nation.

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