Glorious Success as Cabbage Production Surges to 34% of Quota! Wreckers and Saboteurs Falsely Claim Hunger Because of Absence of Cabbage, Which Actually Remains Plentiful In Limited Quantities!
How stupid it has all become.
The New Republic brings bold truth to the liberated intellectuals who serve the brave proletarian masses!
There’s an asterisk on the loophole on the excuse: The plagiarism charges against Brilliant Harvard Person are…mostly bogus. She only plagiarized a little, you fools! That’s still being very prestigious and distinguished!
Then, after the headline, framing framing framing: “If you want to thrust a dagger into the heart of the academy, Cambridge is where you aim.” Rush Limbaugh is invoked. Ron DeSantis is invoked. It’s devils all the way down!
And then watch as the LOL moment arrives in the fourth paragraph:
There’s no question that the accusations against Gay are being offered in utter bad faith, and the charges are inseparable from the political context in which they’re being made. Nevertheless, the right-wing critics could have a case regardless of their motives. A fair reading of the passages they’ve presented suggests that while some of their claims are bogus, others do show problematic issues in a few of Gay’s writings. But they amount to academic misdemeanors—real, but evidence of occasional sloppiness rather than malicious theft.
This claim is very bad! It is wrong! You must avoid taking it seriously! It is dangerous ideological deviationism! Also, it is true. “Nevertheless, the right-wing critics could have a case regardless of their motives.” The entire purpose of this article is to bury that admission in a cloud of obscuring fog, simultaneously acknowledging reality and delegitimizing the acceptance of reality. It is a true-false, cadre! Turn away!
It’s all SO BORING.
Claudine Gay is America’s Most Distinguished Plagiarist™, and that is very, very, very good. Honor her! Honor her with your silence and loyal capitulation!
Snore. Imagine these years without Substack and Elon-era Twitter. Imagine all of this, but with no media but responsible media that doesn’t “spread disinformation,” wink wink.
Chernobyl: "We must cut the phone lines, to prevent the spread of...misinformation."
Also in TNR this week: "Tucker Carlson Is Fading Away"
Subhed: "The former Fox News host has his own 'network' now. But recapturing his Fox News relevance won’t be easy."
https://newrepublic.com/article/177509/tucker-carlson-streaming-service-fox
For example?
"Less than a year after his exit from Fox News, Carlson still has a large following, but he lacks the power and influence he had when he still had his perch in the mainstream media. Without the imprimatur of Fox News, Carlson has become just another fish in a very crowded pond. Far from auguring a new moment in conservative media, this new streaming service only underlines just how far Carlson’s star has fallen since he he fell from Fox’s good graces.
"It’s not entirely clear what the Tucker Carlson Network will look like. For now, the streaming service—which costs $9 a month, more than ad-supported subscriptions for Hulu, Disney+, and Netflix—will offer the show Carlson has been hosting on X (formerly Twitter), which has featured a fairly predictable slate of guests, including Trump, Steve Bannon, and Marjorie Taylor Greene; and more Carlson-centric hangers-on, such as kickboxer and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate and weirdo Argentine President-elect Javier Milei."
He's very marginal, now, and features weird guests like....Javier Milei.
You can tell a journalist has become completely irrelevant, you see, by the fact that he can immediately land long-form interviews with newly elected heads of state.