I Come Not To Praise The Atlantic, But To Pelt It With Rocks And Garbage
By Mitch Berg
Old and Busted: “The rising tide raises all boats”
New Flava: “Decline and stagnation is not just good – it’s courageous“
6 Responses to “I Come Not To Praise The Atlantic, But To Pelt It With Rocks And Garbage”
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January 26th, 2024 at 7:08 am
Sorry, I haven’t had my coffee yet so perhaps there’s something subtle here I don’t get… whenever I see a stupid headline and/or article, I like to see what the author looks like, so I looked up the article above. It’s not real.
I mean, given the last 15 years of Obama adoration and Trump hatred, I didn’t doubt that the article exists, especially considering what a regular writer Atlantic, Tom Nichols (Tim’s brother 😉 has written, but in this case, no.
January 26th, 2024 at 8:35 am
Great catch, jdm.
January 26th, 2024 at 11:38 am
Sad thing is, it’s totally believable amidst calls to achieve unicorn-like goals such as 50% of all cars on the road being EVs or eliminating meat from our diets by mis-century or sooner.
January 26th, 2024 at 1:03 pm
“Fake, but accurate”?
January 27th, 2024 at 8:02 am
JDM, the tweet is from this week. The Reuters fact check is from July of 2022. IIRC, that’s about the same time our betters redefined “Recession.”
January 27th, 2024 at 8:10 am
After Googling the article AND the byline, though, I can’t find the article or the author.
I didn’t see verification that the tweeter is a parody account.
And I apparently should’ve read more than the first paragraph from Reuters. The article title is listed, even if I didn’t see the screenshot being fact checked.