Salon.com recently ran a series ranking the top 30 political hacks. A quick list without explanation is:
The Hack Thirty
1. Richard Cohen
2. Mark Halperin
3. Thomas Friedman
4. David Broder
5. Marty Peretz
6. Marc Thiessen
7. Jonah Goldberg
8. Maureen Dowd
9. Laura Ingraham
10. Peggy Noonan
11. George Will
12. John Fund
13. Roger Simon
14. David Ignatius
15. Mort Zuckerman
16. Michael Barone
17. Bill Kristol
18. Tina Brown
19. Joe Klein
20. Howard Fineman
21. S.E. Cupp
22. Tucker Carlson
23. Howard Kurtz
24. Dana Milbank
25. Mickey Kaus
26. Jeffrey Goldberg
27. Pat Caddell
28. Andrew Malcolm
29. Matt Bai
30. David Brooks
I have to admit, as a semi avid follower of politics I have never heard of some of these people.
Here are my top 3:
1. Bill Kristol
2. Jonah Goldberg
3. Michelle Malkin (who didnt make the list).
WHAT? NO KARL ROVE??????? He’s the biggest political hack of them all and he didn’t even make the list?
No John McCain? As Rachel Maddow reminded us a couple of weeks back, McCain has been on “Meet the Press” 59 TIMES! That’s more than a whole year of McCain! If that doesn’t make him a shining example of the absurd Washington insider scene, what does?
And given the backtracking and ridiculous stances that old fool has taken on in the past 5 years, he has to be on that list.