Josh Barro takes on Charles C.W. Cooke; Readers sense great butthurt

Upshot and New York Times reporter Josh Barro stepped in today to defend Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, whom National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke included in a list of “self-professed nerds” in a National Review piece about “America’s nerd problem” titled “Smarter than Thou.” Or, as Yglesias called it:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/495649894649311232

That led Barro to respond.

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/495650259658227712

Well?

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/495650742863405057

Voxsplained! RT @mattyglesias: "the bar for success in the field of “ideologically orthodox conservative political writing” is very low.”

— Gregimus (@murgatr0id) August 2, 2014

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@mattyglesias @jbarro pic.twitter.com/O8PxI53X3e

— Will Collier (@willcollier) August 2, 2014

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@jbarro @mattyglesias It's not as though anyone worth listening to would ever ask such a question. @charlescwcooke

— ryuge (@0ryuge) August 2, 2014

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@jbarro @mattyglesias @charlescwcooke For the record, Matt, what province did CCWC come from? You know, where he got the accent?

— Bryan McGrath (@ConsWahoo) August 2, 2014

https://twitter.com/VonCsefalvay/status/495664464562503680

@jbarro @mattyglesias The problem you guys have with @charlescwcooke is that he's literate and you're not.

— Charles Flemming (@ChasFlemming) August 2, 2014

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