Thursday Morning Glory

Politics and Media Round-Up

• Why America’s Hottest Young Political Writer Fails: Want to test your patience? Read about a writer and the way he undermines political discourse by writing things like, “”It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag,” when speaking of Sarah Palin addressing Republicans. The author of this piece doesn’t give him a free pass, though: “The only real achievement of writing like this is to encourage already like-minded readers to congratulate themselves on their superior tastes and disdain for the other side. Which is fine, I guess, if not the sort of thing you give out awards for. But someone should tell Taibbi that it’s the predictable disgust of people like him that make the culture-war posturing of people like Sarah Palin so resonant with the many, many folks who like pick-up trucks and plasma TVs and aren’t ashamed of it.” –Jeff Bercovici

• The Paulson Plan Will Make Money For Taxpayers: Wait a minute. The bailout could make money? “My analysis suggests that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (a former investment banker, no less, not a trader) may pull off the mother of all trades, which could net a trillion dollars and maybe as much as $2.2 trillion — yes, with a “t” — for the United States Treasury.” Conservatives, read it and rejoice. This is huge.

• ‘Sun’ Probably Dead: Gawker says the New York Sun is closing on Monday, but the New York Sun seems to disagree. Anyone have some insight on this? Post a comment or send me an e-mail.

• News Execs React to McCain Debate Delay: What are Fox and CNN saying?

• Times Puzzle Is Clueless About McCain: OBAMA is a frequent crossword puzzle answer. MCCAIN? Not so much.

• Rocky editor says he could Twitter a funeral in a sensitive way: Too far?

• The Top 50 Political Blogs Of The Year: Congratulations, John Hawkins, of RightWingNews.com!

• PepsiCo Seeks to Raise Stakes on Super Bowl Ads: Are you ready for some football?

• A STATEMENT FROM LUKE RUSSERT: Media bias? WHAT media bias??

• Father of the Internet: Web Is Running out of Addresses: Defeat. (I just bought a domain yesterday though…)

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