Friday, February 14, 2014

How can we up the wanking...another notch?

On a day where performance artist (Ayn Rand Division) Rand Paul hilariously managed to file a lawsuit that, true to his record, was plagiarized comes this.
Brent Bozell uses his books and columns to rail against liberal media bias and dishonesty, but he reportedly doesn't write a word.
Jim Romenesko spoke to some people affiliated with Bozell's Media Research Center and learned from a former employee that the group's media analysis director, Tim Graham, writes “almost everything published under [Bozell's] name.”
The former employee also noted that, despite not actually writing any of the content, Bozell still collects 80-90 percent of the profits.
Like Paul, Bozell is someone who decries government affirmative action programs while essentially inheriting his position from daddy.  Unlike Paul, Bozell has done it while wearing the world's ickiest ginger-beard.

And then, the punchline, on top of the punchline.

 The president of Creators Syndicate, which carries the column, told Romenesko that it's "absolutely false to say that Brent Bozell does not write his column," but nevertheless, Bozell and Graham will begin sharing a byline.
That statement had to be accompanied by a sad trombone sound.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

6 comments:

StonyPillow said...

And that’s the way it isn’t.

Anonymous said...

But... But.. But... GEORGE SOROS!

Anonymous said...

"No I didn't! And I'll never do it again!"

Kids say the darnedest things....

DanF said...

I guess it's better to only get 10% for the shit he writes as opposed to the credit. That 90% Bozell takes is really hazard pay for being the face of the monkey poop flinger.

pansypoo said...

vampire crapitalism.the top always takes advantage.

Anonymous said...

despite not actually writing any of the content, Bozell still collects 80-90 percent of the profits.

To which Tom Perkins responded, "What, you give your serf an entire 10-20 percent????"