Politico’s Mike Allen: Hobo or Robot?

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Dan Amira, New York | Full Story | If you work in politics or in the political media, you may have woken up this morning and read the Playbook newsletter, in your e-mail or on the Politico website. And if you’re anybody else, you’ve probably never heard of it, in which case, you’re missing out on the most important thing anyone reads, ever, a.k.a., "an insider’s hodgepodge of predawn news, talking-point previews, scooplets, birthday greetings to people you’ve never heard of, random sightings (“spotted”) around town and inside jokes," as Mark Leibovich puts it in an extensive New York Times Magazine profile. How do you even live not being a part of these inside jokes, or knowing that, for example, today is this guy’s birthday?

But perhaps even more interesting to anyone not entirely excited by political-media navel-gazing is the article’s focus on the quirks of Playbook’s scribe, Mike Allen, who, it seems, shares few qualities with the human race but many with homeless people and robots. Please bear with us as we review the evidence. >>

Published 10.04.21 | Posted by Andrew Garib on 10.04.21 | |