Jack Shafer's Top 8

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 

•  UnnamedAmerican Prospectmagazine 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.