Caitlin Flanagan at that noted conservative tool The Atlantic notes that h Big Media botched everthing that could be botched about the Covington flap – and gave us the pullquote of the week:
The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it.
But read the whole thing anyway.
I agree — that’s probably the best pullquote summation of this episode I’ve seen. Brilliant.
The Covington More Cow Bell Edition
Try that again.
The Covington More Cowbell Edition
From The Atlantic piece, quoting Phillips: “I wish I could see … the [young men] could put that energy into making this country really great … helping those that are hungry.”
The best way to ‘feed the hungry’ is to find some hungry people and give them, you know, food. Banging a goddam drum has never put food into anyone’s belly. You want to make a bunch of hungry people happy? Give them a couple of bags of bags of McDonalds or BK hamburgers.
The top feel good story of 2019 told in two tweets by the Head of Opinion for HuffPost:
…wait for it…