Just Stupid

Does anyone else think that posts like this just make Josh Marshall seem like a pretentious jerk?

Great work CNN! (You'll understand soon enough ...)

Well if I'll understand soon enough, and through no help from him, then what the hell is the point of that post? This is the blogging equivalent of running up to a friend, telling them you know a great secret but then refusing to share it. Imagine CNN running a breaking news bar on the website that read "Shocking story. Details soon." You'd be annoyed, and rightfully so. It is especially obnoxious because Marshall has made sort of a specialty of this, and seems to rarely deliver. It makes it a bit hard to take him seriously.

UPDATE: Oh look, Marshall actually explained himself:

The reference to CNN last night was to their running live on-air the panicked reactions of the convention director as the balloons failed to drop precisely on schedule. Originally it may have been a glitch. But they seemed to keep it running long after they could have rectified the problem.

Huh. Neat. I'm not trying to pick on Marshall, he does great work. But he has to know that he's getting a reputation for these sly and elusive comments, and would be better served to avoid them. Particularly when, as here, they concern tremendously trivial matters.