Not to pile on Politico, which I don’t hate as much as a lot of other people do, but it’s worth noting that John’s last two posts were about how one of Politico’s star junior political reporters spends half his day tracking down Breitbart rumors while the other takes dictation from Dick Cheney.
Nothing against Ben Smith or Jon Martin, who seem like nice enough guys. But, again, it’s hard to see how this bodes well for our political system.
Bret
I’m sure they’ll both be Pulitzer Prize winners soon. And then the apocalypse shan’t be far behind.
Max
I think Ben’s a hack. He’s one of those “some people say” type of journos.
And he crushes on pols….
http://twitter.com/benpolitico/statuses/7146361931
gbear
You’re not trying hard enough. ;)
I learned to hate Politico by (trying) to read the comments. Politico’s readers are ugly ugly souls.
Tres Chouette
…and now you know why people nurse grudges about Politico.
Mike Kay
Jon Martin was a former spokesperson for the republican House caucus when Hastert was speaker.
Politico is financed by a right-wing family who once owned the defunct Washington Star and later Riggs bank who laundered Pinochet’s blood money.
No really. I’m serious.
slag
@Max:
Indeed. I believe the term is “gossip-monger”.
Brick Oven Bill
Balloon Juice beat Drudge by I think three days with the Climate-Gate issue. The Politico should monitor Balloon Juice instead of Drudge if it wants to be smart.
Keith G
I do not like them. About 9 mon ago, the headliners were on Charlie Rose really full of themselves and talking about how they were going to “move the story.”
I know, I am hopeless. I grew up with Huntley, Brinkley and Cronkite. Politico is probably making smart business moves, but yuck.
ajr22
I can just imagine a meeting at Politico about the underwear bomber.
Real journalist: You could look at a multitude of reasons for this security breach. The plight of young Muslim kids, failures at the TSA, the massive bureaucracy of our security agencies.
Editor: Well I’m looking for the dickensian aspect of the story.
Jon Martin: Well I’ll just call Cheney and take his statement.
Editor: Sounds good Jon. I smell a Pulitzer.
valdivia
@ajr22:
The Wire, Season 5, documentary after the fact.
TR
Went looking for details on Politico’s founding and financing.
Of course, Glennzilla had the details in full. Yowza.
Yutsano
Way OT but don’t care.
GO BRONCS!!
Man I hope they pull this off.
EDIT: INCOMPLETE ON 4TH & 8!!
Morbo
Oh my dear sweet Jeebus, Colbert has Erick ver Erickson as a guest tonight. I know I won’t be able to stand it…
TR
Colbert just called out EE for calling Souter a “goat-fucking child molester” and saying Obama’s Nobel win was an affirmative action hire, among other things. Wow.
hovercraft
There is this horrible trend online you had POLITICO as a political news source, there was also REAL CLEAR POLITICS, as genuine political news sources in 2008 and then they became obsessed with page views. When supposably neutral sites are recommending that you stay away that tells me that all is not well. ( funny last year in the heat of the campaign Nate warned people off RCL and recommended Politics Home and Memorandum) The irony. With few exceptions most of the blogasphere is concerned about pageviwes not the truth
Lisa K.
Well, you should. Piece of trash.