Here’s everybody’s favorite Clinton-era apparatchik/hack masquerading as a “newsman,” George Stephanopoulos, starting the Obama drumbeat early and often. Let the shilling begin!

Shame on Steffi, and worse shame on ABC for employing a political operative and trying — unsuccessfully, thankfully — to fob him off on the public as an objective journalist.

Somewhere, the ghost of Howard K. Smith is weeping. In case you’ve forgotten — or in case you never knew — here’s what a real TV newsman used to look and sound like:

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