Lincoln Chafee probably isn’t going to become president of the United States and Lincoln Chafee probably knows that.
But this interview with the insufferable Wolf Blitzer on CNN this afternoon leads me to this question: Why does it so offend journalists and political wags so much that he and people like him try?
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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins