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Throughout this year, columnists from The Stanford Daily have made several personal criticism of The Review. Many of the columnists attacked the credibility of The Review. Few, however, backed-up their claims with specific details. Daily columnist Adam Bad Wound was especially adept at attacking the paper. Smoke Signals records some of these public criticisms below, giving each a proper rating on its ingenuity.

	Televangelist with sex tapes	Columnist Darren Franich argued that The Review has the “credibility of a televangelist with a sex tape collection” in a piece on revelations he had about Stanford after returning from a quarter abroad in Germany. According to Franich, however, The Review keeps life at Stanford farcical.
	Next best thing	In the second of a series of columns on his problems with The Stanford Review, columnist Adam Bad Wound said that “compared to The Onion, [The Review is] the next best thing.” Unbeknownst to Bad Wound, The Onion, although a farcical paper, has had an article actually been considered for a Pulitzer Prize.
	Fish wrap	In a catalog of “facts [that] are grounded in truth [but] have been embellished for the sake of fun,” The Daily’s Victor Fuste states: “The Stanford Review has been voted the greatest publication on campus. To wrap fish with.”
	Double-spaced trash	In an article lampooning The Review for an article on the Stanford Indian, Adam Bad Wound suggested that The Review “stops printing everything double-spaced. I’m no math major, but if the publication was single spaced, wouldn’t that create half as much trash?” The attack might have been funny if The Review published double-space—which it doesn’t.
	Whack-jobs	In an article about his American Indian heritage, columnist Adam Bad Wound considered the possibility of getting in “another fight with the whack-jobs at the Stanford Review and make even more enemies across campus.”