So Who's the Worst Political Journalist

(Man, will that field be wide this year!)

From Skippy:

the new york press is holding wimblehack! the first quadriennial head-to-head contest to see who is the worst political journalist in the country.

the rules are very simple. we have chosen 32 of the country's leading campaign reporters, mostly from the world of print, and bracketed them into pairs. each week, the pairs will square off against one another. whoever writes worse, advances. it's that simple.

the tournament progresses until the week after the election, when the writer of the worst and most slavish and dishonest election post-mortem among the two remaining contestants will receive an illustrious mystery prize from the new york press tournament committee. anyone familiar with the history of these sorts of competitions is welcome to speculate as to what that might be.

to determine a winner in each match-up, the contenders' articles will be examined by a three-person panel of drug-addicted judges culled from the editorial ranks of this newspaper. our decisions are completely subjective and cannot be appealed. in fact, one of our rules is that any appeal from a contestant, whether in private or in public, results in automatic advance through to the next round.