says it all. Well, almost all. What it doesn’t say is how disgusting it is.
Kinsley’s first column is not only awful, but worse, he will be “revisiting this theme regularly.”
el presidente Twitter Fingers and his tweet followers. Which is even more disgusting.
Postscript: May 8 — This is the tagline for the column: The president’s flaws are well known to readers of many mainstream media outlets. Our purpose with this feature, which will appear regularly in Sunday Review, is to present things the president has said or done that are praiseworthy. Any suggestions?
Surely the shift at the Times surprises no one……
True.
A fool’s a fool. No need to accommodate unless he’s your beloved kin.
I think this is just Kinsley indulging the same contrarian impulse that made Slate (which he founded) what it is.
But in this case contrarian in a dead-wrong direction.
You didn’t read the column? the only positive thing Kinsley has to say about trump is transparently tongue-in-cheek:
“Thanks to @realDonaldtrump, the average citizen now has a view straight into the president’s id. You may not like what you see, but you can see it. … So that’s one good thing he has done for the country. Can you think of another?”
Of course I read the column. It’s not what it says about Trump that makes it so rotten. It’s what it says about the press. Just look at the lede. It calls the press “vicious” for portraying Trump “day after day, as a narcissist, personally obnoxious, with a policy agenda to match.” Sure, the rot is flavored with a little sugar: “He deserves most of this criticism.” And: “If there is” an anti-Trump “party line,” it is “largely right.” “But” — here’s the kicker — “the venom, the obsession, the knife-twisting are hard to understand.” So that’s transparently tongue-in-cheek? A venomous, knife-twisting press has an inexplicable obsession with Trump. You think Twitter Fingers and his supporters will read it as tongue-in-cheek? I don’t think so.
Jan, I agree with you completely. If anyone is “venomous” and “knife-twisting,” it’s Trump.
At least, our inglorious, ignominious president has rid some of us of our complacency. And he’s been great fodder for satirists. But he can’t really take credit for that, can he?