Ok. Fear, smear, sarcasm, threats and potential lawsuits, and leaked memos …. apparently it all did the trick.
Congratulations Mark (“Being human is overrated“) Penn.
Maybe Walters Bagehot and Lippman, and Leo Strauss, were right after all.
This newsclip, by the way, is irresistible — (thanks to my infinite friend):

March 11, 2008 at 12:09 pm |
Being human definitely IS overrated.