What makes [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel advertorial calumnist Patrick] McIlheran so privileged, so entitled?Heartland Hollar: Generally a wrong wing-guy.
The least they could do is offer some "competition" on their own pages with an opposing (and accurate) view. Or they could simply provide the journalistic babysitting that McIlheran so obviously needs.
A common malady, with a equally common response to the reading public: eff yoo.
ReplyDelete"If abortion were returned to the democratic process ..."
ReplyDeleteWe could all vote Yea or Nay on each one.
Douthat's a fabulous example of how a typical, relatively bright, articulate top-quintile university student/graduate can make a career simply out of being conservative. With arguments and writing of comparable quality, someone of mainstream liberal views would have no chance of landing a NYT position.
ReplyDeleteFace it: the bar is set lower for conservatives. In some locales -- think McIlheran, now -- the bar just sits on the floor.
Got to give him credit, though. The little neckbeard managed to slip a fancified, conservative version of Ward Churchill's "chickens coming home to roost" rationalization for homicide into the flagship of the So-Called Liberal Media.
ReplyDeleteNever given to hyperbole, Bruce Redenz of the estimable Badger Blogger referred to Paddy as one of the finest conservative writers of this era.
ReplyDelete*Gurgle shplat*
"Alternatively, maybe George F. Will is a bullshitter..."
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