How did this guy get to run a newspaper?

Howell (or is it Howl?) Raines is quoted by Best of the Web:

George W represents the conservative, greedy wing of the Privilege party.. . . George W got into the Air National Guard when others couldn't through his father's political pull, that he got into flight school ahead of others due to his father's political pull, that he was allowed to skip his normal weekend drills and make them up without being punished because of his father's political pull.. . . Cheney used graduate-school deferments to beat the draft.. . . The incumbent looks like Goofy when he smirks.

It's one thing to disagree with a person's policies, but to resort to irrelevancies, falsehood and personal insults is hardly the mark of an insightful or objective journalist, let alone an editor. But there's worse:

He [Kerry] must appeal to the same emotions that attract voters to Republicans--ie greed and the desire to fix the crap-shoot in their favour. That means that instead of talking about "fixing" social security, you talk about building a retirement system that makes middle-class voters believe they will be semi-rich someday. As matters now stand, Kerry has assured the DLC, "I am not a redistributionist Democrat."

That's actually a good start. Using that promise as disinformation, he must now figure out a creative way to become a redistributionist Democrat.

If you have to win with disinformation, you must have a real disdain for democracy and for the American people. This guy reminds me of Richard Nixon.