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CNN’s "Senior Political Analyst" Bill Schneider has published a list of "Political Turkeys" for 2008. Bill Schneider tells us that "Turkeys are foolish creatures — overstuffed, noisy and self-important. A lot like the politicians on our list of Turkeys of the Year." Hilarious!

But then, Bill Schneider has some balls calling anyone else "overstuffed, noisy and self-important."

Schneider isn’t actually a journalist. He’s a Hoover Institution and American Enterprise Institute affiliated star player on the "Best Political Team on Television" who specializes in mindless, extraordinarily shallow horserace and Beltway-insider "analysis." He also can’t do math and wears stupid hats.

Lists like Schneider’s are pretty much the epitome of the kind of "journalism" produced by Our Liberal (AEI-affiliated) Media — just an endless blooper reel to be smirked over. They can’t understand or explain anything in its complexity, and so the country goes to hell and what do we get? Lame sub-Mr Blackwell level bitchiness. Is this the real story of the mess that is the American automotive industry? "Arrogant auto executives who come to Washington looking for a bailout. In their private jets." You’d almost never know that we’re looking at the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and a possible depression, since all we hear about from CNN talking heads and their blathering equivalents is this trivia about these fucking private jets.

God I hate this shit. Who the hell is CNN to be calling anyone else "overstuffed, noisy, and self-important"? Didn’t they just blow a great big story, the financial meltdown, which blog readers saw coming years ago? What if they’d done their goddamn jobs back when doing some real reporting might have done some good? And didn’t they whiz the Iraq war disaster in exactly the same way? They have some balls to be snarking at anyone.