The Death of the Media
Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) breathlessly tells us that Joe Biden is not going to run in the 2016 Goat Rodeo, in another one of their classic, unsourced, unattributed articles.
I’ll give you the sources, because that’s the kinda guy I am:
- a New Hampshire Democrat said
- an Iowa Democrat said
- an Iowa Democrat said
- said a New Hampshire Democrat
- a New Hampshire Democrat said
- a New Hampshire Democrat said
- warned an Iowa Democrat
- Added a New Hampshire Democrat
- an Iowa Democrat said
- said a New Hampshire Republican
- said an Iowa Republican
- Summed up a Granite State Republican
- an Iowa Republican said
- wailed a New Hampshire Democrat
- said an Iowa Republican
- an Iowa Republican said
- a New Hampshire Republican said
- complained a New Hampshire Republican
- cautioned a New Hampshire Republican
I get it that some people will not speak freely on the record, but that is what changes speculative gossip and guessing into a news story. This is gossip. Unless Joe Biden announces a run, Politico will sit back smugly and say that they got a scoop. This is the stuff of madness.
Mock Paper Scissors 
So maybe the corporatist-warmonger wing of the Democratic party won’t hedge their bets with a 2nd candidate?
SHOCKING IF TRUE!
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Some say, Thunder. Some say.
–TG
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“This is the stuff of madness.”
MADNESS!!??
THIS…IS…JOURNALISM!!!!
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Too bad there’s nobody kicking Ben Smith into a pit.
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Dreadful “journalist” behavior; lovely post.
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“‘Some Say’, Some Said” was Neil Diamond’s worst song.
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Some say heliocentrism is a fallacy perpetuated by Satan to promote the liberal agenda and to also prevent Joe Biden from announcing his candidacy. Can I has my Pulitzer now?
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A California democrat says “Some people say Mickey Kauss blows goats.”
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