Reid Epstein: Hack
July 25th, 2011 - 2:19 pm
Oh, Politico, you do find ways to amuse us so:
King is among the House Republicans who voted for the so-called “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan that would introduce a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The Senate last week dismissed the House bill.
That’s the third graf from Epstein’s story on Steve King’s Twitter antics this morning. But why the scare quotes around “Cut, Cap and Balance?” It’s called Cut, Cap and Balance. It seems “Reid” wants his “reporting” to trivialize the House-passed measure in his “newspaper,” without ever telling you what’s in it.
That’s your Washington Steno Pool, hard at work protecting Democratic interests since 1933.
He’s a hack because he put quotes around the title of the bill? I don’t suppose you ever considered the possibility that he put quotes around the title because that is one method of conveying to the reader that the word or words within the quotation marks are the title of the subject legislation, did you? I mean, you are aware that the marks you call “scare quotes” (note: actual quote; not a title) are actually called “quotation marks” (again…) aren’t you?
In honor of your insightful commentary and stinging satire, I hereby name this post, “Hack” (as in “you”).
He put the scare quotes around it after the phrase “so-called,” as I quoted from his article.
So until you demonstrate better reading skills, I will think of you as a “dumbass.”