I like Ryan and Pete because they’re comedians worth laughing at, just like Frank Rich, whose vein of targets (Bush only, apparently) is notably poor; his drivel isn’t as Kerryesque in its nuance or multipliicity of content as it ought to be (why, that makes Rich like Bush, but poorer). But I’m sure all three are full of Hope that 0bama will part with some spendorama Change to buy the NYT for the PublicGood™ so they can have something to which–as Alger Hiss essentially put it–to “mentally masturbate.” Yet another crude lefty, and confirmed Communist, though he lied about it to the end.