Everyone’s pissed off over Jacob Weisberg’s weird rant about Hillary Clinton’s iPod, and they’re right to be. He basically used it as an excuse to demonstrate that Hillary is exactly the conniving fake he always thought she was, and it’s likely he would have written the exact same thing regardless of what songs had made her top ten list. It was a remarkably lazy piece.

This was my favorite bit:

“Hillary Clinton is the least spontaneous of politicians, and this playlist suggests premeditation, if not actual poll-testing. She first indicates that she basically likes everything before coming to roost on classic rock and soul, which any baby boomer must identify with, lest she or he be branded terminally uncool. Hillary avoids, however, anything too racy, druggie, or aggressive, while naming tunes that are empowering and inspirational. On the world-is-divided-into-two-kinds-of-people question “the Beatles or the Stones,” she, like her husband, finds a middle path: both. She names no Stones songs and chooses a consensus, universally liked, neither-early-nor-late Beatles tune, “Hey Jude.” Hillary also manages a shout-out to racial diversity and feminism via Aretha Franklin, and she strikes a younger, socially conscious chord with U2. “Take It to the Limit,” on the other hand, is such a lame, black-hole-of-the-1970s choice that it can’t be taken for anything other than an expression of actual taste.”