By Pepper of the Daily Pepper

And you can read that title however you want. Apparently My Pet Wingnut James Lileks has been too busy to Screed. All Lileks has up on his Screedblog page this week is a bare Quicktime player and a few words. The Quicktime file is of Medved taking down a Left-wing conspiracy theorist who says that Cheney shot Whittington because Whittington “knew something.” The theorist was most likely a show intern dialing in from a cell phone, set up to be the perfect patsy because the moment was just too canned.

Lileks’ only response is the following:

I love talk radio. You wouldn’t think that grasping at straws would make for interesting listening, but it does. From the Medved show the day after Deadeye Dick – aka “the shooter” – had the unfortunate aiming malfunction.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.