Did Reporters Get Born Yesterday?

The dumbest political controversy this week, a prize that one wins with some difficulty, comes unsurprisingly from the Boston Globe. Michael Kranish found it necessary to breathlessly report that John McCain used a proverb that is so well-known that it has probably appeared on tens of thousands of blogs before yesterday. Somehow, however, Kranish and an unnamed reporter on McCain's beat managed to turn it into a nasty personal attack on Mitt Romney: Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
3.7
by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a short carefully sourced and well written piece about one of the efforts by the Democratic Party media to cause controversy among the strongest Republican Presidential candidates. Ed Morrisey is probably second only to Glenn Reynolds among all the political bloggers (left, center and right wing) in the respect he gets from across the political spectrum, and the fair-minded and measured way this short piece is written shows why both liberals and conservatives have such a high regard for him. The issue is not that important, or the rating would have been higher.

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4.0
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3.0
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