tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post6730472915090318838..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Stupid, stupid, stupidbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-50135622792439942032008-01-27T02:19:00.000-05:002008-01-27T02:19:00.000-05:00On some of them she'll back track, contradict earl...<I>On some of them she'll back track, contradict earlier assertions, or just pull shit from nutella's "Ecyclopedia Out-of-my-assica," all the while dripping with a tone of absurdly elitist pretention.</I><BR/><BR/>Don't forget the McArdle Hallmark: the <I>argument ad anecdotum</I> whereby an incident from a cousin's barber's mother's friend proves she was right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-46778830540388807352008-01-25T18:26:00.000-05:002008-01-25T18:26:00.000-05:00Well then I guess that makes her pov cred just air...Well then I guess that makes her pov cred just air tight. There's a pattern on her site that I've noticed now: She writes an inane post about something she doesn't understand and gets called out for it. Then she writes two or three more follow-up posts claiming that anyone who disagreed with her merely misunderstood her point, with a few quickly Googled statistics thrown in to make it appear as though she actually researched a subject before writing about it. On some of them she'll back track, contradict earlier assertions, or just pull shit from nutella's "Ecyclopedia Out-of-my-assica," all the while dripping with a tone of absurdly elitist pretention. Her writing is so below professional standards, I'm beginning to wonder if she isn't earning her job in other ways. I know that's cruel, but fuck it. So is she.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-30950820184659112972008-01-25T17:57:00.000-05:002008-01-25T17:57:00.000-05:00Most likely her prep school, like mine, had a comm...Most likely her prep school, like mine, had a community service requirement, and she ladled out soup at a Catholic charity 2 hours a week for a semester.<BR/>Bear in mind, this would have been in the late 80s/early 90s, before Rudy forced most of the homeless to the Bronx and East NY, so Megan would have been feeding a very different selection of the poor and homeless than make up the vast majority of those groups. She was feeding those homeless Vietnam vets her and Bill O'Reilly don't believe exist.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-6751841256344855022008-01-25T17:43:00.000-05:002008-01-25T17:43:00.000-05:00You've got to love the way she talks about "poor p...You've got to love the way she talks about "poor people" as if they were some monolithic, unvarying group of people with exactly the same lifestyle and habits. I wonder what she means by "worked on the front lines"? Did she once miss a subway stop and actually have to rub elbows with the plebes or somethig?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com