Bonfire Of The Inanities
By Mitch Berg
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.
January 25th, 2019 at 12:00 pm
I agree — that’s probably the best pullquote summation of this episode I’ve seen. Brilliant.
January 25th, 2019 at 7:47 pm
The Covington More Cow Bell Edition
January 25th, 2019 at 7:48 pm
Try that again.
The Covington More Cowbell Edition
January 25th, 2019 at 11:31 pm
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.
January 26th, 2019 at 7:43 am
The top feel good story of 2019 told in two tweets by the Head of Opinion for HuffPost:
…wait for it…