The New York Times offers up yet another flattering profile of the crackpot right, because of course

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The New York Times offers up yet another flattering profile of the crackpot right, because of course
Hunter
Daily Kos Staff
Tuesday May 08, 2018 · 5:55 PM EDT


Having finally interviewed every last Trump voter in America, apparently, the New York Times turns its attention to flattering whoever it can find that is even worse. The new effort comes to us via conservative opinionite Bari Weiss, with a hagiography of a collection of very well-to-do public assholes whose only common link appears to be a mutual pretense that they are together being terribly persecuted by other Americans for expressing their garbage opinions out loud. How you inflate this into a new make-believe movement is a mystery, but Weiss appears to believe in the ancient power of making it up as you go.

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Short version: Give me attention. Don't care how I get it. Look, I am broadening the discourze.

There's no reason to go through the article for any finer detail than that; there isn't much. The reason it was written is to provide gratis advertising to a laundry list of individuals that Bari Weiss herself wishes to mainstream, under the pretext of claiming that you not already knowing their names is evidence they are being suppressed. It is goofy, and stupid, and par for the course in the Times opinion pages these days, now that they have decided to abandon the pretext of being "intellectual" themselves and installed a series of science deniers and professional fibbers to balance out the snobbish types who disapprove of those things.

But when you're writing an entire long-form essay arguing that the likes of the omnifuckingpresent Ben Shapiro isn't getting enough attention, you may have lost the plot.

Whatever. It's an advertising campaign. We get it. That's what conservative opinion-writers do: they write long pieces for the top newspapers and magazines in the nation complaining that they are oppressed because they are not getting more attention in the top magazines and newspapers of the nation. They bleat about how a truly free country would value stupid ideas and non-stupid ones equally, and grouse about the elitism of pointing out that some ideas are genuinely Not Good. It's a schtick.

And it will never, ever end.

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[Mc Mike]

1. The Clark Hoyt effect.

[Me.]

2. Have Seen Her Spout Her GobbledeGook A Few Times Now

She is just so desperate to be one of the 'cool' kids