I'd like to buy it dinner and whisper sweet nothings in its ear.
The War Room's "Hack Thirty" journalists. My only complaint -- why stop at thirty. I don't think fifty would have been a stretch.
The top four are a pretty good illustration of the hackery concept -- Richard Cohen, Mark Halperin, Thomas Friedman, and David Broder. If I had to quibble I would move Cohen down the list -- not because he is not an egregious hack -- he most certainly is -- but rather, because I can't think of anyone who takes Richard Cohen seriously, which, sadly, is not the case with Messrs. Halperin, Friedman, and Broder. I'm also not sure about Marty Peretz at number five, because I am afraid what Peretz does -- the routine engaging of hate speech in an allegedly respectable publication -- should not be trivialized as mere hackery.
I would be inclined to move David Brooks way up the list and ignore Peretz as someone not fit for polite company. You could throw in Krauthammer in his stead.
