Is this the most pointlessly dickish piece yet published about GHWB's passing in the mainstream media? Why yes, yes it is. At least Franklin Foer was making a political argument. This is just the author being a shithead for cash.
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It’s actually quite gracious of you to assume the author was motivated by cash, rather than mean-spirited cynicism bordering on evil.
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Her basic thesis was "Dogs aren't as great as we think and this one was no exception."
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weird, Ruth Graham is actually (imo) a good and fair religion writer, haven't seen her do clickbait before
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never heard of her before, and intentionally didn't put her twitter handle in there because i don't like publicly dragging writers who aren't matt yglesias, but where on earth does the editorial pitch for a piece like that come from?
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