February 10, 2007
He Who Wields the Hatchet
Mike Allen is a journalist rich in education and experience:- Served a Time magazine’s White House correspondent
- Six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush’s first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000.
- Stints at the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, The Free Lance-Star (VA)
- Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post.
- Covered parts of Connecticut for The New York Times.
- B.A. from Washington and Lee University, where he majored in politics and journalism.
So how have we come to a place where a guy with this much experience can do something as stupid and evil — or is it just lazy and ignorant? — as this?
Update: Could it be petty, personal pique?
Posted by Michael : February 10, 2007 04:14 PM | The Media | TechnoLinks
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Comments
He's not stupid. Lazy or corrupt or both seem to be the live options...
Posted by: Brad DeLong at February 10, 2007 07:38 PMI lived in dar es salaam for a year. You don't have to dig too deep to realize that the swahili people use many arabic words to communicate which leads me to believe he was just being mean. But, sometimes you wonder what people w/ all that education were doing in class... or maybe east africa to this man just seems like an underdeveloped backwards and he need not waste any time thinking about it.
Posted by: how at February 10, 2007 07:52 PMI'll go with corrupt.
Posted by: shmuel at February 11, 2007 07:51 PM