Hacky Hackingtons

Alex Parene at Salon brings us perhaps the only valuable journalistic year end round-up: The Hack Thirty.

His thoughts on:

Richard Cohen: "There’s no subject on which Richard Cohen is not completely inessential. "

Mark Halperin: "At the very least, Halperin’s TV chyron should read, “ALWAYS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING.”"

Thomas Friedman: "He’s a silly, simple-minded man whose success leads a cynic to the conclusion that the world is run by similarly silly, simple-minded men."

David Broder: "He has a simplistic understanding of politics and no understanding of the electorate except as an abstract concept. His hatred of partisanship is actually a thinly veiled disdain for popular rule itself."

Not only does he point out why these people are the hackiest hacks in journalism, but he provides examples!

Thank you, Mr. Parene, and thank you Salon.