'Re-shilling click-bait': Matt Yglesias uses death of 'Fast & Furious' star to pimp 6-month-old column

https://twitter.com/khariparson/status/406987094259933184

Too soon, as well as too late, because the column Salon’s Matt Yglesias was re-promoting because of the death of actor Paul Walker is six months old:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/406986830085890048

Um, okayyy.

@mattyglesias i didn't think i could be offended by any response to his death, but there you are, re-shilling click-bait to juke the uniques

— sex toy rebranded as skin care device (@MrGoodVotes) December 1, 2013

@mattyglesias Of your innumerable flaws, the worst is you have no honor. You are unfit for civil society. Return to your morass.

— Dr Hugo Hackenbush (@MangyLover) December 1, 2013

Another fucking ghoul: @mattyglesias, using Paul Walker's death to pimp his own mediocre article from May. #slowclap

— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) December 1, 2013

@CatsPolitics Example of "long-term erosion of American social institutions": using a death as reason to tweet a crappy piece. @mattyglesias

— Kim Jong-unthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) December 1, 2013

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