Kerry... too funny to be president...

Jodi Wilogren did a baffling hatchet job on John Kerry in Sunday's New York Times, where she appeared to be upset that Kerry has a writing staff. "So it went on Mr. Kerry's cross-country tour these past two weeks. Same speech, different opening joke at each stop," she whined. Why do you insult my standing as a mainstream journalist by writing a new joke each time, forcing me to pay attention to your speech? Then, at the end, trying to smear this approach as backfiring, she goes ahead and makes shit up:

But the perils of going local are, well, getting it wrong...

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Mr. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, made a similar goof a few weeks back, when she tried to get points in Cleveland for being from Pittsburgh, perhaps forgetting the Browns-Steelers and Indians-Pirates rivalries.

OK, Browns-Steelers, maybe, but Indians-Pirates? There is no Indians-Pirates rivalry. The Indians and Pirates have probably played 6 games in their history, all of them meaningless. Yes, Jodi, the perils of going local ARE getting it wrong.