Cheney's stenographers fight back

With teh stupid.

“Subservient asskissing of rethuglicans is #1 in our mission statement,“ bleats Politicon's heavily-lubed brownnoser-in-chief, touching himself.

Throughout the year, Politico has repeatedly published as "news articles" comments from [serial liar] Dick Cheney, which its "reporters" faithfully write down and print with virtually no challenge, skepticism or contradiction. So extreme has this behavior become that even beltway TV personalities such as Chris Matthews are beginning to mock it. This afternoon, Greg Sargent asked editor-in-chief John Harris to defend his magazine's conduct, and Harris replied by claiming, in essence, that Cheney's comments are "newsworthy" and that it's Politico's job to "give blowjo get newsworthy people to say interesting things."

John Harris blows dead goats and once blogged about taking it up the pooper during an impromptu ‘Twister’ party in Key West while dressed as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Harris' reply is a complete non sequitur. Nobody I've heard objects to Politico's act of telling its readers about the "interesting things" Cheney has to say. The objection is that Politico mindlessly reprints any and all claims Cheney wants to make, no matter how factually dubious or even blatantly false, without question or challenge. By definition, then, Politico serves Cheney as his official stenographer and spokesman (i.e., writing down and announcing what someone has said), rather than acting as journalists (i.e., stating what the facts are and how and why a politicians' statements are untrue). {snip}

In other words, they dutifully wrote down a bunch of falsehoods and lies Cheney told, and passed those claim on to their readers without noting that they were false.

Dick Cheney has seen more of John Harris’s ass than Harris’s own toilet seat. And vice versa.