The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf must have had some straw left over from his recent piece in which he “exposed” Twitchy founder Michelle Malkin as a “xenophobe” for raising the same concerns about border security that Friedersdorf himself had written about — before quietly “evolving” on the issue, apparently. This week, it’s fellow Atlantic writer Joshua Foust’s turn to clean up Friedersdorf’s mess; fortunately, he had help from those with adequate reading comprehension skills.
Friedersdorf’s piece, “Let’s Make Drone Strikes Safe, Legal, and Rare,” is available at The Atlantic’s website, but Foust’s tweets are a better investment of your time.
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317696720291131393
Oops, wrong link! Why does that sound so familiar…
But that isolated, one-time mixup was last week; back to Foust.
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317732394037825536
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317699275842805761
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317732462761488384
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317733027742642176
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317733183846232065
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317734021759127552
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317734872431083520
Yes, enough with the capital letters — the big words are hard enough to understand without making them bigger.
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317735423055106048
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317735878300672001
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317736612471635968
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317736755673563137
Sticking to reading might be a good career choice; writing without doing research first isn’t working out.
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317736872161988608
https://twitter.com/joshuafoust/status/317737566206038017
The blowback from Friedersdorf’s hit piece on Michelle Malkin hasn’t slowed him down after all. Should we look forward to strike three next week?
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Update:
This is fun. Jeffrey Lord has published a piece at The American Spectator today outing Friedersdorf as a “conservative huckster.” Friedersdorf’s response? I never said I was a conservative.
