Besides supporting FR through money and content, I have no connections to the admins. The admins have thrown some of my posts that were much less silly than than yours off the sidebar. At 2 AM they are all asleep. So it's up to us to police ourselves. This post was silly and has no place in the editorial section.*
*Not my place to say. But a 30 second youtube video is not an editorial, IMHO. But it's not my site. I just work here.
Look, my calling you orwelljr was intended to be silly with a complimentary component.
Of course this youtube is silly. One needs merely to glance at its subjects.
• Dr Evil? Silly and stupid from his inception.
• Barbara Boxer? Silly, stupid and evil -- and what does that say about those who get her elected?
As far as 30 seconds goes: if only all editorials could be condensed down to thirty seconds and make their point so clearly. Maybe you don't like Devore. Maybe I don't like him either. It doesn't matter. Someone associated with him was doing their job and I think they did it well. Today, quick and effective effort needs to be applauded and raised above all the other trash.
Hey, I can write a editorial demonstrating stupidity that is far less than thirty-seconds and could be used to title a new postmodern version of Mad Magazine:
Senator Barbara Boxer