For The Record

We wish to state that no one ever offers us any compensation for anything we write in this blog. We admit when we read about Payolagate for a moment we imagined the possibilities. Then we recognized that given our hit numbers, even Il Ducetto would only pay us about $1.57, which you couldn't even buy a good latte with if it were possible to buy a latte in the small town in central Maine in which we are fortunate enough to live. So, because selling out will do us no good, and because it's just wrong, we promise we will never take any form of compensation to state a political opinion or analysis or argument on this blog.

This conclusion, however, leads us to consider Oliver's campaign to make conservative pundits state whether they have received any funds from Il Ducetto's administration. We believe this is a worthy effort but insufficent. We need to ask the networks, newspapers and syndicators whether they know if any of the pundits who appear on or in their media outlets and/or receive payments from them have received compensation from Il Ducetto's administration or campaign. And if they don't know, we need to ask them why not.