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You just proved my point.

You expect people to somehow know and lionize these left-wing hacks as if their eminence should be self-evident and known to all, despite their bent (which is revealed in the 2nd paragraph where the author calls a sitting President a 'clown').

That's the problem with unself-aware people like you, who expect everyone to read the same people you do. Left-leaning people have been accused of living in their own self-made bubbles of comfy self-reinforcing left-leaning talking points.

Thats how you get to a point where a presidential candidate feels comfortable & self-assured in calling those who won't vote for her "a basket of deplorables" or a current 2020 presidential candidate saying "if you have a problem figuring out if you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black" to black voters[2].

You're not helping with this thinking of yours or your entitlement in feeling that a journalist of your liking will be liked by all or considered even-keeled by all.

[1] Basket of deplorables

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables

[2] Biden tells voters 'you ain't black' if you're still deciding between him and Trump – video

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/22/joe-bi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lmdnm2vgmI

https://i.imgur.com/nvFiIJi.png




> the author calls a sitting President a 'clown'

Our of curiosity, are you equally offended when the press calls the sitting presidents of other countries nasty names?

If not, why not?


Lol your response is utterly nonsensical.

This “left-wing hack” just excoriated the entire media and left-wing movement for essentially being fascists. Did you even bother reading the article?


You almost never judge based on one piece of writing.

You judge based on the oeuvre of their lifetime work.[1]

People like him are particularly adept at changing their tone based on which way the political winds blew at that particular time.

The whole of the Left is filled with such noxious people who wouldn't think twice before throwing one of their own under the bus, if it suits their cause.

That's how they've abandoned Noam Chomsky who was once the Left's darling and could do no harm. They're a sickly bunch and a death cult and cannot be trusted with anything resembling power.

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi#The_eXile

[2] Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy

How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political, and environmental commons.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/noam-chomsky-neoli...




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