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
@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
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@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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