And so, naturally, it does not form a priority in the
hackery of our political system.
Yet unlike Jones and other wacky household names like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck - who wore their Republican allegiances on their sleeves - Maddow drapes her own partisan
hackery in the veil of rational, liberal objectivity.
That gets emphasized when she endures a gown fitting, subject to the designer Sahil's (Raj Bajaj) eccentric whims and artistic
hackery.
But for cherry-picking above and beyond the call of duty, Nunes deserves his own exhibit in the
hackery hall of fame.
Wolfson also spouts off standard attack lines on Republicans that sound like they were taken straight from a Senate communications director's cheat sheet, and that makes reading his portion of the book a chore for anyone who dislikes
hackery. Fortunately, he does ultimately circle back to discussing the idea that data-driven government will make "people's lives better."
Even if they are derided for
hackery, this is a decision that rational politicians will make.
publishing an illicitlyacquired extract of Margaret Thatcher's Diaries which totally overshadowed the following day's Conservative conference - the sort of story a Daily Mirror editor lives for - were two more illustrious moments in 50 years of
hackery.
Though she portrayed herself as an apolitical housewife who became dissatisfied with her lot and characterized her middleclass marriage as a "comfortable concentration camp," Friedan was, Horowitz explains, "a 25-year veteran of professional journalism in the Communist left," whose feminist theories were recycled Marxist
hackery. Her oppression was notably genteel: married to a theater producer, Friedan resided in a Hudson River mansion maintained by a maid.
"What has Carwyn Jones said to the constitutional position of Wales, or indeed anywhere else, beyond party
hackery? "He came to Scotland and gave a daft speech about 'we're all better together'.
1) Since this entire custom firmware deal is major
hackery, there is some degradation in quality.
(65.) See Ramesh Ponnuru, Democratic
Hackery at Slate, NAT'L