Your very specific Backroom-oriented definition aside, I am actually pretty confident in my usage of the term. You directed the vast majority of your attention to the writer of the editorial I posted (the man) without saying much about his specific points (the ball), except to say that he had several - which is somehow worse than having only one.

Frankly, I find the new found interest in editorial integrity odd, coming from a guy who posts random comments from anonymous blog readers and ascribes them important-sounding titles to give their points more weight.

Now, I am not able to confirm or deny a specific business agreement between Mr. Harnden and Mr. Drudge as I have not taken to time to investigate; and to be honest, I don’t really know how such an agreement would change the points made in the editorial. I do know that Mr. Harnden does at least work for a major periodical and is at least willing to put his name behind his comments, unlike a certain military reader I know.