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1. Comment by John Cheshire on 12/9 @ 8:28 am #

   When asked,”Mr. Egan, If a plumber can’t right a book because, well, he is a plumber then I can assume that Obama can’t write TWO books because he is a lawyer correct?…when are you doing an op-ed about that?…Mr. Egan? Mr. Egan are you OK?”

   Followed by the sound of Tim Egans head exploding. You know, from the Irony.

   Mmmm…Irony. Drink it in. It always goes down smooth.

2. Comment by The Monster on 12/9 @ 8:37 am #

   “If a plumber can’t right a book”

   Not exactly the best way to discuss who has the right to write a book.

3. Comment by Dan Collins on 12/9 @ 8:39 am #

   I think it’s teh intentional, The Monster.

4. Comment by DarthRove on 12/9 @ 8:55 am #

   Halp us, Timm Egan, we r stuk in hear with non-J-skool-appoved riters.

5. Comment by JFH on 12/9 @ 8:55 am #

   I’ve righted dozens of books without having the resume of Egan… though heavier book ends would have made that process unnecessary.

6. Comment by geoffb on 12/9 @ 9:14 am #

   “You’re forgetting the one thing that Twain, Orwell, the Bard and I share that you’ll never ever have: a degree in journalism.”

   Just how long have they been granting degrees in journalism?

7. Comment by MarkD on 12/9 @ 9:20 am #

   I’ll bet it would only take an internet search and a few hundred bucks to come up with a journalism degree. The real question is, why? The Times is mortgaging its building to keep the paper going. Several others have declared bankrupcy.

   Community organizer is where the action is, kids.

8. Comment by Sgt. Mom on 12/9 @ 9:44 am #

   Ya know, just off the cuff – quite a lot of really great, or merely entertaining books that I had to read as an English lit major, and some others that I read for fun, had been written by people who had done something else for a while, other than hang out in English lit departments, and in trendy Nooo Yawk media circles. Having done something else lends a certain something to the stuff that a writer can draw from.

   Admittedly, a few of them had been working journalists – like Samuel Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, George McDonald Fraser and Carl Hiaasen. Working actor and theatrical manager, like William Shakespeare. Policeman, like Joseph Wambaugh, oil bidness like Raymond Chandler. Bank clerk – TS Eliot, veterinarian – James Herriot, James Jones – soldier, Eric Newby – a whole lot of stuff, Patrick Leigh Fermer – classical scholar and soldier.

   Yeah, I presume to write books and I don’t have a journo degree either. Only the shake-an-bake Defense Information School course for military broadcasters.

9. Comment by Y-not on 12/9 @ 12:21 pm #

   You’re forgetting the one thing that Twain, Orwell, the Bard and I share that you’ll never ever have: a degree in journalism.

   I guess this guy must really respect Governor Palin, then.

   /sarc

10. Comment by Darth Bacon on 12/9 @ 4:49 pm #

    Wait…

    Teh Bard had a J-Skool degree?

11. Comment by A Concerned Christian Conservative on 12/9 @ 8:39 pm #

    Ya know what Joe’s gonna have next year that Egan won’t?

    A job.

12. Pingback by Widespread Corruption Charges Shock Illinois [Dan Collins] on 12/10 @ 10:04 am #

    [...] the end of this piece, we hear again from our old pal, licensed journalist Tim Egan: In an op-ed piece, the NYT’s Timothy Egan says that the complaint against Blagojevich [...]

13. Comment by Wayne Parsons on 12/14 @ 9:31 am #

    Homer, Plato, Socrates,… all had something in common with Joe the Plumber that they didn’t have with Egan. Good writing doesn’t need a credential, Mr. Ego.

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