An hour and thirteen minutes of non-stop hirsute osculation at the Grey Lady at Eighth and Forty First! In case you don’t follow this stuff all that closely, after eighteen opinionatin’ years at the New York Times, Latin Mass Catholic Ross Douthat is taking his “thinking man’s conservative” act to CBS News to star as…
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Ezra Klein is an idiot! And so is his wife! Occasionally!
Okay, let me unpack this. On Sunday, Ezra published a really stupid column, Why a Middle-Class Lifestyle Remains Out of Reach for So Many, which, among other things, quoted from a really stupid article in the Atlantic, The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America: In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded,…
Ross versus Ezra: No way! Your crazies are way crazier than our crazies!
Ross Douthat picks a fight with Ezra Klein over whether Obama Derangement Syndrome is more intense than Bush Derangement Syndrome.Klein links BDS to 9/11, but struggles to find comparable causality for ODS: “Bush Derangement Syndrome sought extraordinary explanations for extraordinary events; Obama Derangement Syndrome seeks extraordinary explanations for an ordinary presidency.” Sniffs Ross, “This … does…