NOTHING WRONG WITH A LITTLE NEPOTISM, as long as you keep it in the family: “Ohio’s chief law enforcer was caught on tape cursing a reporter outside a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama because of an article about a woman Dann raised as his daughter landing a state job. Attorney General Marc Dann, a Youngstown Democrat, was headed into the fundraiser Wednesday when he spotted Warren Tribune Chronicle reporter Steve Oravecz and shouted, ‘Hey Steve, write this down: Go (expletive) yourself’!”

But it produced a YouTube moment: “Television station WYTV caught the swearing on camera and posted it online.” If you’re going to practice old-style politics, you still need to be hip to the new-style media.