2/ "This column, abt decline/fall of America’s polit news media in pivotal election year, very hard to write—not for a lack of material, but bc I can’t keep pace w every day’s new & stunning examples of bad journalism, each spiraling lower...
An idea that animated the right: fantasy that Walz is a phony..2006 episode when his then-congressional campaign claimed he’d won a youth award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce when really it was — get this! — the Nebraska Jr Chamber of Commerce!"