Ah, if I were 25 years younger....

Any chance "fact-checking" can be interpreted as "fact-making-upping?"  If so, I'm your man!

adaglas -- Actually, I think that slot is open too!

Shouldn't you also hire an IT professional who can straighten out your website?

folks, if Kirchick can work here and get promoted (!) then shee-at, we could be running the funhouse is a mere few months...

Well, I am fairly young but I unfortunately have no journalism experience. Unless working as a radar analyst counts as journalism experience. In which case I am your man!

Thanks epackard!  That means you can soon look forward to my hard-hitting expose on Giuliani's ties to the Stonecutters, my heartwarming tale of the wooden boy brought to life by the power of Christian prayer, and all the tawdry details of my torrid romance with Scarlett Johannsen.

(And to think, I honestly used to be a professional journalist...well, sportswriter.)

Where's Elspeth? Let's get fact-checkers and reporters. Good idea.

Israel good!  Israel's critics bad!

How's that? Am I hired yet? More? Okay, try this:

Israel's critics' critics good!

More? Okay, but this is getting tedious...

Hmmm...I do have experience in political journalism.  But I just signed a lease, and, frankly, am in too much debt to work for some $300 a week.  Unless, of course, the masses call for me to right this ship.

(deafening silence, absent even the tumbleweed, too disgusted to roll across)

riffing on Yard...

Carter BAD BAD BAD

Baker BAD BAD BAD

Kerry BAD BAD BAD

Kofi BAD BAD BAD

Jesse BAD BAD BAD

Al BAD BAD BAD

Sy Hersh BAD BAD BAD

New York Sun GOOD GOOD GOOD

WSJ GOOD GOOD GOOD

Mark Steyn GOOD GOOD GOOD

Arabs BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD...

Iran INVADE INVADE INVADE

Iraq GOOD GOOD GOOD

Democrats WIMPS WIMPS WIMPS

Neocons MISUNDERSTOOD MISUNDERSTOOD MISUNDERSTOOD.

Now, mr. yard, you're hired...

Wow, times are tough.

The New Republic is looking for Reporter-Researchers and is willing to pay the District of Columbia minimum wage of $ 7.00/Hour.

If the assignment goes into July 25, 2008 you get a raise to $ 7.55/hour, or an extra $ 22/week.

I had a lot of respect for these writers here until I found out how cheap they work.  This explains a lot of the weak stuff here on the Plank.

For an orginization that promotes universal health care coverage and higher minimum wages, you would think TNR could go $ 8, $9 or $ 10 an hour.

But what do I know, they are getting me to write for free.

if I can do the job from my home for one or two hours a day count me in. And I can fact-check real good, I can spell googel and wipipedea real quick.

If they're paying $7.55 an hour for Reporter/Researcher, how much you reckon they pay the idiots who have made it virtually impossible to post comments on articles?  I suspect they got illegal immigrants from a Innuit reservation's computer training school who live in the basement and get paid in blubber.