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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That, of course, depends upon one's definition of "principle." If by "principle" we mean giving the store away to the rich and making K Street a wholly-owned subsidiary and turning the other cheek at our own corruption and letting a big fat bloviating zillionaire cigar smoker be our default spokespoop, we'd say your party is very principled.
Of course, as we're too well aware, the Democrats have their principles too: the principle of abortion at any cost, the principle of retreat and withdrawal at any cost, the principle of show-biz as the fount of our morals, the principle of tantruming as righteousness. And they've pretty much locked up K Street for the interregnum.
Is ANY political type immune from the seductions of DUKE CUNNINGHAM?