It's early, I know, but Ben Feller has already raised the bar very, very high.
Read and study carefully this "analysis" of Bush's presidency. Many vignettes and anecdotes are employed to describe our leader of the last eight years, but strangely, none of the following words find their way into the text:
Iraq • Afghanistan • Bin Laden • Cheney • PDB • Torture • "Mushroom cloud" • Taliban • "Stupidest fucking guy on the planet" • Guantanamo • Yellowcake • Curveball • "Stuff happens" • Halliburton • KBR • WMD • "Fuck Saddam, we're taking him out" • FISA • Wiretapping • Immunity • Waterboarding • Lawbreaking • Patriot Act • Plame • Libby • Gonzales • Geneva Conventions • Rove • US Attorneys • Yglesias • Siegelman • Ohio • Blackwell • Unitary • Alito • Iran • Hamas • Rendition • Abu Ghraib • Bremer • Walter Reed • Economy • "Ownership society" • Bailout • Privatization • "Personal accounts" • Recession • SEC • FEMA • Kyoto • Katrina • Blackwater • "Heckuva job" • Brownie • Bush v Gore
I could go on. Like I said, Feller has set the bar for substance-free reportage extremely high. In a way, it is a fitting valedictory for a wire service that has functioned for large swathes of time as an extension of the White House stenographers' pool. Heckuva job, Benny.
---Vitelius
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