CCJ’s open reliance on random unknown d-bags he meets on Twitter has already burned him badly. @STKnutsen is a church secretary / bored housewife from Georgia who he’s hired to do his opposition research, and she’s the one who apparently found the photo of Angie, thinking it was Jackie. She’s the one who convinced Chuck to run with the story, and she attempted to take the blame on Twitter when it all blew up in his face.

Now Chuck is advertising on Twitter for people to do legwork for him in Philadelphia and has some random pro-life fanatic wanting to do the same in NYC.

This is reckless and stupid for multiple reasons. First off, these people aren’t reporters, they have no real journalistic training or research background, which doesn’t bother Chuck because he doesn’t either. This makes them equally as reckless as he is, and what he desperately needs is a rational voice, someone who can hit the brakes.

This willingness to hire unknown stringers also opens him up to infiltration, being fed bad information on purpose by those who oppose him. Sooner or later this is bound to happen, someone with no real online political opinion fingerprint, or a faked background, will be able to slide themselves into his confidences and Dan Rather his ass with a deliberate hoax.