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Another awkward disclosure by Slate media something-or-other Jack Shafer: “[Mark] Feldstein is a friend — not as good a friend as David Corn, but a lot better than Michael Isikoff.”Which inspired FishbowlDC to rank Jack’s friends. David Corn comes out on top, but there are a couple other Shafer friends left off the list. Here’s a start:

• Gregg Easterbrook (friend for 20 years)

• Ana Marie Cox (friend as of 2004)
• James Surowiecki
• Bill Powers
• Joel Achenbach
• Michael Isikoff, circa 2003 (”sometime friend“)
• Alex Star (Friend, “not such a good friend” that Shafer wouldn’t trash him)
• Matt Cooper
• Nick Gillespie
• Jim Brady
• Matt Miller
• Glenn Simpson
• Chuck “News of the Weird” Shepard
• Anne Applebaum
• Dennis Cauchon
• Unnamed American Prospect magazine staff
• Dave McKenna
• Jonathan Chait
• Jeff Riggenbach (“old friend”)
• Eric Boehlert (friend for 15 years, despite having met a couple weeks ago)
• Mary Jordan and…
• …Kevin Sullivan
• Jeffrey Goldberg
• Rachel Zimmerman

NOT A FRIEND

• Joe Nocera

Jack Shafer’s Friend Ranking, Version 1.0 [FishbowlDC]

Full disclosure: Patrick Gavin is a friend. We don’t really consider Jack Shafer a friend (though we once did call him a friend), but he did invite us to crash Michael Isikoff’s upcoming wedding with him.