Max Boot’s already fragile ego has taken some hits lately, thanks to Buckley Fellow John Hirschauer’s pieces for National Review Online taking apart his blanket shaming of white people and Boot’s subsequent hysterical response to being taken apart.
Naturally, CNN decided to give Boot a platform to amplify his absurd contention that National Review “attacked” him out of anger at being exposed as an increasingly white supremacist publication:
.@MaxBoot responds to the National Review article attacking him, saying "it's incredibly shocking and offensive to me."
"Sadly, I think it's a reflection of how even mainstream conservative publications are being Trumpified and are going down the same road [of] Fox News." pic.twitter.com/ZRdWUbR9QW
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 14, 2019
National Review writers are understandably getting fed up with Boot’s stark-raving dishonesty, and today, NRO editor Charles C.W. Cooke dropped Boot like a bag of dirt.
And Max Boot thought National Review attacked him before… https://t.co/ygOzSm70Hm
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 14, 2019
You knew the @charlescwcooke response to this was coming and boy is it a doozy. https://t.co/kLTDRdAzMD
— Marco Esquondolas (@MarcoEsquondola) August 14, 2019
It certainly is. We obviously post Cooke’s piece in its entirety, but his conclusion should tide you over until you can read the full takedown:
In and of itself, Boot’s techniques are both tiresome and reprehensible. But when coupled with the ersatz I-take-no-pleasure-in-this lamentations that have become his hallmark in the Trump era, the affectation becomes too much to bear. Boot seems to fancy himself as Mark Antony, here to bury a Caesar he once loved, when in reality he is more like Romeo Montague: a callow, selfish, monomaniacal, self-pitying featherweight, who is constitutionally unable to prevent the escalation of petty infractions. Reading Boot these days is akin to listening to a teenager talk incessantly about himself. “And then I didn’t like this. And then I discovered that. And then this person was mean to me. And then I was attacked.” Oh, do shut up, dear, before we all die from nausea. And learn to read before you come back.
Did we mention you should read the whole thing?
What @charlescwcooke posits in here sounds right. @MaxBoot did some quick googling for his column accusing NR of white nationalism, read the subhead of the @baseballcrank article, didn’t bother to read the piece and fired away
Max Boot’s Dishonesty https://t.co/wylQkNTS8q
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) August 14, 2019
Go read @charlescwcooke on Max Boot's strategic dishonesty & the feedback loop that encourages it.
'In a sensible world, the editors of WaPo would have looked at what Boot has tried to do over the last couple of days, and tattooed “hack” on his forehead'https://t.co/E7pdMTbYjE
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) August 14, 2019
"Boot’s techniques are both tiresome and reprehensible. But when coupled with the ersatz I-take-no-pleasure-in-this lamentations that have become his hallmark in the Trump era, the affectation becomes too much to bear."
Perfect from @charlescwcooke https://t.co/KpfjwnAfDw
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) August 14, 2019
This. Is. Glorious.
Bravo, @charlescwcooke https://t.co/kUx5l1Em8n
— Neva the #1 American Elbow Doctor of New Jersey (@pipandbaby) August 14, 2019
This is perhaps the definitive piece on Max Boot.
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 14, 2019
Yowza pic.twitter.com/9LPpzmya7O
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 14, 2019
One can say Max's goose is…
COOKED https://t.co/e83oLshFQe
— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) August 14, 2019
Max Boot rn pic.twitter.com/NoiDmUvBo8
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 14, 2019
Accurate:
You guys are having a meltdown. This attack is so shrill it discredits itself. Obviously I struck a nerve. If you think I libeled your writers by quoting what you published (my column: https://t.co/Nylc6u9cga), maybe you should rethink what you publish. https://t.co/a1ZD6eyF97
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 14, 2019
Max is the one whose nerves seem to be rattled.
"People I accused of being white supremacists without any basis have comprehensively refuted my claims. Truly, I must have struck a nerve." https://t.co/zfoLolkeEm
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) August 14, 2019
The guy’s coming unglued before our eyes, and instead of getting the help he so clearly needs, he’s just leaning into the insanity even harder.
A devastating critique from @charlescwcooke
How long before @MaxBoot accuses him of white supremacism???
Max Boot’s Dishonesty https://t.co/wylQkNTS8q
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) August 14, 2019
Not long, we’d wager.
Expecting a CNN special report tonight. “With us for the full hour: Max Boot, who’s in fear of his life from noted neo-Nazi Charles Cooke.” https://t.co/wy3U22iOeR
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 14, 2019
We all know how this is ultimately going to end up for Max Boot:
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 14, 2019
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Update:
Well, it appears the corncobbing of Max Boot is proceeding apace:
Is there no depth to which Trumpistas will not sink?
— Paul Rosenzweig (@RosenzweigP) August 14, 2019
The question answers itself. https://t.co/p5Bp3DnIx5
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 14, 2019
Welp.
He is literally insane now. pic.twitter.com/v5OrRXqssP
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 14, 2019
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