September 18, 2004
It's hard to be "classy" in this degraded age...
Kaus points to this item in the 9/17 ABC Note:
The best example of how degrading it can be to be a political reporter: USA Today 's classy Susan Page forced to write up the Gallup poll/joke "showing" the president with a mythical 13-point lead for the front page of her paper — thus suggesting Gallup's 2000 track record of wild swings might be replicated this cycle.I tend to agree that the Gallup Poll is an outlier.(Question it gives rise to: What's the real margin? A. 5-6 points, with Bush holding small- to medium-sized (surmountable) leads in most of the important battlegrounds.)
But one is "degraded" by having to report a Bush lead? Oh baby, that's rich. She's degraded by contact with nasty Republicans? If that's the case, Miss Classy, I hope Bush wins 50, and is close in the District of Columbia. 'Cause then you will really feel "degraded." Something like being dragged behind a chariot while the crowd throws rotten vegetables.
Degraded. Egad.
Posted by John Weidner at September 18, 2004 07:57 AM | TrackBackI have never heard of Susan Page but it is hilarious to hear someone coming from a representative of the elitist, progressive, down-with-mass-media left describing someone who works for USA Today as "classy." I thought the colorfilled, picture-chocked, charts-dependent rag was a symbol of all that is horrid about homogenous, dumbed-down, in-duh-vidual culture-destroying capitalism.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at September 18, 2004 04:08 PM
