Will Someone Please Create A 'Downfall' Parody About Penn Jillette

by Matt Welch | June 21, 2010

If you can get through one of the most irritating and politically clueless intros you'll read all month, this Vanity Fair interview with the reliably interesting political commentator Penn Jillette  (with the eyeball-catching headline of "Penn Jillette Is Willing to Be a Guest on Adolf Hitler's Talk Show") is well worth a read.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/21/penn-jillette-on-bush-obama-th

Do you think Bullshit is fair and balanced?
We're very, very fair and very, very biased. (Laughs.) Which is what I want from all media, by the way. I want the anchor on the nightly news to come on and say, "I hate President Obama… and here's the news." All this whimpering in the press about how we shouldn't have news that's partial and subjective, it misses the point completely. It was (newspaper magnate William Randolph) Hearst that invented the idea that journalism should be in the middle. It was never like that before. It was the Ohio Democrat and the Minnesota Republican. They said it right in their titles. And then Hearst decided he could sell twice as many papers if he pretended that they didn't have a position. And of course that's always a lie.

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