There’s been lots of talk about “fake news” this last year, but Vox’s Matt Yglesias is laying down a marker about when fake news isn’t a bad thing: An uncomfortable lesson: Fake news wrongly blaming Ryan for the Speakers Lobby dress code was effective at producing much-needed change. — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 13, 2017 […]
http://twitter.com/#!/monsterhunter45/status/443596719515643904 Yesterday, Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a congressional race for Florida’s 13th district to decide who would finish the term of Republican Bill Young, who died last October. Debbie Wasserman Schultz spun the Dem loss in a race many considered to be a referendum on Obamacare as a GOP underperformance. The […]
http://twitter.com/#!/mattyglesias/status/405076033415958528 Ever since horrifying videos of vicious teenagers punching out random strangers emerged, liberals have come out of the woodwork to point a finger at shocked Americans and scream “racist!” while denying that the “knockout game” even exists. In a mind-numbing example of extreme progressive mental gymnastics, liberal Slate writer Matt Yglesias admitted being beat up […]
http://twitter.com/#!/KarlKroshinsky/status/439464835706007552 Boy, that Sarah Palin sure is a dunce, isn’t she? Just ask “real journalist” Blake Hounshell, who was quite tickled when Palin said this back in 2008: After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage […]
http://twitter.com/#!/exjon/status/430372405916078080 Twitchy favorite @exjon makes us laugh quite often, but it turns out that the folks at Visa don’t quite get his style of humor. http://twitter.com/#!/askvisa/status/430471693744615425 http://twitter.com/#!/exjon/status/430483491248037888 “Oh, Matt Yglesias … now we get it.” Editor’s note: We have amended this post to correct a typo in the first sentence. Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/02/03/matt-yglesias-joke-confounds-the-folks-at-visa/