The Hack Hillbilly

The Hairless Hack is correcting his errors without acknowledging them. He originally wrote this at Slate:

(Chuck Berry got the idea for "Maybelline" by listening to Gene Autry!)

Through the miracle of unprincipled hackery, his blog now reads like this:

(Chuck Berry, known around St. Louis as the "black hillbilly," based his first hit, "Maybellene," on an old country song; Bo Diddley invented his eponymous beat after listening to ... Gene Autry!)

You'd think the powers at the Washington Post would frown on such sleazy doings... but instead they'll probably give Kaus a spot on the editorial page, between Krauthammer and Will.