Casting doubt on Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman's claim to have helped write a speech for President Obama: "Mort Zuckerman did not 'help write; any of Barack Obama's speeches… There are a lot of reasons why this is the case-for example Mort Zuckerman and Barack Obama do not hold, in particular, many political positions in common-but the chief reason you can tell that Mort Zuckerman has not helped write any of the President's speeches is that the President's speeches are really well-written, and Mort Zuckerman is not that smart."

Over the last ten years, the New York Post has called Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman a cheapskate, a tyrant, an illegal maid-payer, a friend to unsavory characters, a bad businessman, a racist, a friend of terrorism, a firer of pregnant women, a publisher who uses his editorial page for the his own real estate interests, a constructor of dangerous buildings, the provoker of staff suicides, as well as wild-eyed, mercurial, panicky, a cheater of readers, a scoffer at laws, a "horrible, nickel-and-diming boss," and the publisher of boring publications. And now, they want him as the Senator from New York. Yes! Today's Post editorial declares that "the emergence [...]