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October 8, 2009

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This one comes courtesy of the meme-makers over at Politico:

“SECOND LADY ENJOYS WINE, FRIES”

Oh, indeed. The Ethos of Our Journalistic Moment–“a smart thought today can be conventional wisdom tomorrow,” etc., etc.–have never been realized more profoundly. Or, you know, deliciously.

[h/t Jamison Foser]

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.