Nate Silver's Nemesis

The undisputed star of the election just had a marvelous run-in with one John Ziegler. The Atlantic, with our customary prescience, profiled Ziegler three years ago. Even better, the profile was by the late David Foster Wallace. Money quote:

KFI's John Ziegler is not a journalisthe is an entertainer. Or maybe it's better to say that he is part of a peculiar, modern, and very popular type of news industry, one that manages to enjoy the authority and influence of journalism without the stodgy constraints of fairness, objectivity, and responsibility that make trying to tell the truth such a drag for everyone involved. It is a frightening industry, though not for any of the simple reasons most critics give.