Or possibly observe that the messenger hasn’t been right about anything in eight years, and the odds don’t him favor starting now.

Sure, you can bet against million to one odds, but you probably won’t get rich doing it, and FOX might be right about something, but you won’t get rich betting on FOX suddenly noticing reality.

If you can’t dispute the message, attack the messenger.

There is nothing irrational about your dislike of Rob Liefeld. There are plenty of bad artists working in comics, and there are plenty of artists whose popularity was out of proportion with their talents. But never before or since has there been an an artist both so incompetent and acclaimed as Liefeld was in the early 90s.

He is truly the G.W. Bush of comic book illustrators.

I’m only up to season 2.5

But I’d like to see more basic reportage before I just take as gospel what the article claims. Four paragraphs in before we get past the spin and and actually start getting names and facts. Only five from the end before any acknowledgment that there are legitimate reasons for delaying the change over and not just that it advantages Clearwire.

HAS Salemme been advising the Obama transition team? Clearwire has only said he’s on leave and Obama hasn’t commented.

A telecommunications company has confirmed for this columnist that its vice president for policy—who is also an Obama donor and a former lobbyist—is advising Barack Obama’s transition team on telecom policy.

Obama’s transition team, which has failed to disclose this executive’s involvement, happens to have proposed a significant change in telecom policy that will profit that very company, called Clearwire.

Change you can believe in!

I’m just glad that Kyle Baker will be doing his own Obama-related work soon.