What’s the best reason to have a fake reporter shilling at White House press conferences?
Fake crises, fake news — why not fake reporters?
845   72.9%
Totalitarianism is the sort of thing you want to taste first before you dig right in
187   16.1%
Only thing keeping Scottie McClellan from breaking down and recanting all
74   6.4%
All the kissing up from regular reporters kinda pales by comparison
53   4.6%

Ah, yes, but there’s a joyful new bit of lunacy on the wires — personal vehicles twice the size of Hummers.

And there’s a new poll at top left.

Actual entries from the NYT Almanac’s "Chronology of U.S. History" (not online that I can find, unfortunately; you’ll have to take my word for it), with verbatim quotes next to the year:

1636     New Englanders massacre hundreds of Indians in Pequot War.  Harvard College established.

1656     First Quakers arrive in America; imprisoned in Boston, beaten, and deported.

1842     U.S. accidentally seizes California, then returns it with apology to Mexico.

Some unknown NYT editor is either utterly oblivious… or (I prefer to think) has a deliciously bleak sense of humor.