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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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Friday, June 06, 2008

Posted 6:03 PM by Gene

Methinks con-SER-va-tives make too much of the Lord's résumé. Let us look at God's father Abraham: he served all of one term in the House and lost twice for the Senate (in the days before direct elections). Before his presidency he was the nineteenth century's idea of a high-powered trial lawyer, and given that his net worth was all of $15,000 he wasn't too high-powered. Henry Adams had said if he'd had to go by his one meeting with Lincoln to determine his presidency he'd have deemed him an outright failure. Or look at Harry Truman -- who could have predicted a busted haberdasher could be such a successful president? That said perhaps The Lord has it in Him to be good, but we fear He (and especially The Lord's Wife) may have too much self-contentment for that.

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