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Top Line Book Corner -- I Am Martin Eisenstadt and Adventures in the Fake Punditocracy
ABC News -- ABC News Rick Klein reports: Washington has no shortage of pundits who pretend to know what theyre talking about. But theres a real dearth of pretend pundits -- and even fewer who will talk about why theyre pretending in the first place. Enter into this space Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin, a pair of filmmakers who hatched the plan to create a pundit last year. Before they were done, Marty Eisenstadt had lobbied for a casino in Baghdads Green Zone; was hanging out with Joe the Plumber at a Saturday Night Live after-party; and was a former top McCain adviser taking credit for leaking the tidbit that had Sarah Palin thinking Africa was a country. Everyone from the Los Angeles Times to MSNBC fell for the hoax. Now, Eisenstadt is an author, too...
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11.23.09 - Updated 11:11pm ET
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