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Charles Pierce letter to Media News:

From CHARLES PIERCE: Once, a long time ago, some Boston sportswriters helped to deprive Ted Williams of several shiny trophies by leaving him off their ballots out of personal spite. It should be noted that these people are now reckoned to be historic embarrassments. Yet, there's Mr. Milbank, right there at the pinnacle of American political journalism, admitting to Mr. Kurtz that the coverage of what only was the election of the President of the United States was corrupted root-and-branch by a petty, pre-adolescent animus toward one of the candidates. ("He thinks he's SO WICKED SMART. We'll get him at recess.") And Mr. Kurtz sits there and nods like a ceramic dog in the back window of a car. Apparently, he was exhausted, poor man, from the Herculean effort required to make sure that my friend and neighbor Karla Hailer-Fidelman didn't destroy the credibility of American journalism from the pages of the Newton TAB. Pardon me if I believe that the whole craft has gone out of its mind.