Posted 9:21 AM by Gene

If you consume too much "news" as I do you become painfully aware the industry is full of stooges. Stooges for the left, stooges for the right, stooges for every conceivable industry. E. J., one of the left's most reliable stooges, has lent himself out as a flack for Veep Throttlebottom. Oh yes, he can call it an interview, but this being the paper of the SA-LOHN we can recognize it as a pure partisan favor. This sort of thing shouldn't surprise us -- Throttle hired a TWXSTER as his spokespoop and he was never seen again. E. J. long established himself as one of those we don't read just from the byline, combining table-pounding partisanship with an unshakable superiority and surpassing glibness; but the important thing he is not that he is left, but that he is a news hack, a zillionaire news hack, a condescending news hack, and he reminds us we peons' challenge in putting the demagogues and liars and ad salesmen out of the biz has only begun, and will never end.