The Prince of Machiavelli

Lick was supposed to put CNN back in the middle and bring it back to the middle, but he forgot a very fundamental dictum of political science. If you're going to go after the king, you kill him. You don't wound him. Lick should have fired Don Lamone on day one for being too partisan. He wounded the king and the king got angry and crushed him. His ratings didn't go up because his own team was undermining him. So they weren't nonpartisan. They were still being partisan. And so he was, it's the worst thing you can do is to be a weak revolutionary or, as I said, to plot a coup and then not go