Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a barrage of verbal cluster bombs aimed at Fox News, "where diseased egos seek to shape the world in their image"; at MSNBC, "the shame of a nation"; at CNN, "the other shame of a nation"; at Roger Ailes, who turned anchormen in to "ventriloquist dummies'; at the out-of-control Geraldo Rivera ("Geraldo of Arabia"); and even at the heralded Thomas Friedman ("foreign policy's manic depressive indicator"). Wolcott watches the professional pundits at the game called spin, and maintains that we are all diminished by it.