Quote of the Day

“[Las Vegas Review-Journal Editor Thomas] Mitchell told me Friday that I was cherry-picking stories to paint a negative picture of a paper he insisted plays it ‘fair and down the middle.’ I asked the editor whether his reporters might be getting a mixed message — with his unusual practice of writing so pointedly for one candidate. He responded: ‘It’s a blog.’ Maybe that meant his words didn’t count the same, seeing as they appeared only online. Is that what he meant? I tried to ask, but Mitchell had had enough. He hung up.” — another demonstration of the boorish, close-minded attitude that has made Mitchell’s paper the worst major (?) metropolitan daily in the U.S.