I promise I'll let you use this thread for whatever purposes you like if you just allow me to link to this The New York Times' piece that references Max Sawicky and the debate hosted here on Chris Hayes' Hip Heterodoxy.

TPMCafe isn't just about the news. It is news, ladies and gents.

Remember when John McCain was the presumptive GOP nominee? When the vast majority of the vast punditocracy said "the GOP likes to nominate front-runners" and "McCain's waited his turn." Whoops.

While this certainly wasn't needed, McCain's fall strikes me as further proof of the general absurdity of, as the English TV man Jeremy Paxman put it, "the journalist-as-clairvoyant."

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