If this woman is a journalist, and her beat has been the Supreme Court of the United States, her readers (I’m not one, thankfully) are better off with her abandoning that subject. Her writing is abhorrent, ungrammatical, and strident. In a word, she is a capital “H” Hack.
That is correct but possibly too kind. I have not yet come across a better example of a yipping, baying #MediaJackal. This woman who calls herself Dahlia Lithwick is the perfect example of the species.
The linked article by Ms. Lithwick refers to the “unprecedented seat stolen from President Barack Obama in 2016” and spends the rest of it complaining about Justice Kavanaugh’s alleged youthful wrongdoing and his SCOTUS confirmation. Very 2018, you know?
If Ms. Lithwick were an honest crusader for women taken advantage of by powerful men, we might say that she is shrill and annoying but at least principled. But remember she is not a journalist but a Democrat Party operative with a byline at Slate. Her supposed concern about justice and fairness and women’s rights is weaponized only against Republicans. When it comes to women who have credibly accused prominent Democrat men of wrongdoing, Ms. Lithwick writes articles calling those men’s speeches “beautiful.” How likely is it that her venom toward President Trump is that he cost her a White House assistant press secretary job under a Dem?
Remember, faux journalistic outrage gets invented only when it can be weaponized against political opponents like Justice Kavanaugh.
PS: here’s an article this #MediaJackal wrote about “lax gun laws” that slanders Americans who want to preserve their self-defense rights as white nationalists or white supremacists or something:
Now is the time to fight against guns, white nationalism, and the administration that lets both run rampant…
There are many, many things we can do about domestic terrorism and lax gun laws. But they demand that we toss off the learned helplessness in which we have swaddled ourselves, and reckon with the sick fetishization of the supremacy of whiteness and maleness and guns as transcendent American values.
If this woman is a journalist, and her beat has been the Supreme Court of the United States, her readers (I’m not one, thankfully) are better off with her abandoning that subject. Her writing is abhorrent, ungrammatical, and strident. In a word, she is a capital “H” Hack.
That is correct but possibly too kind. I have not yet come across a better example of a yipping, baying #MediaJackal. This woman who calls herself Dahlia Lithwick is the perfect example of the species.
The linked article by Ms. Lithwick refers to the “unprecedented seat stolen from President Barack Obama in 2016” and spends the rest of it complaining about Justice Kavanaugh’s alleged youthful wrongdoing and his SCOTUS confirmation. Very 2018, you know?
If Ms. Lithwick were an honest crusader for women taken advantage of by powerful men, we might say that she is shrill and annoying but at least principled. But remember she is not a journalist but a Democrat Party operative with a byline at Slate. Her supposed concern about justice and fairness and women’s rights is weaponized only against Republicans. When it comes to women who have credibly accused prominent Democrat men of wrongdoing, Ms. Lithwick writes articles calling those men’s speeches “beautiful.” How likely is it that her venom toward President Trump is that he cost her a White House assistant press secretary job under a Dem?
Remember, faux journalistic outrage gets invented only when it can be weaponized against political opponents like Justice Kavanaugh.
PS: here’s an article this #MediaJackal wrote about “lax gun laws” that slanders Americans who want to preserve their self-defense rights as white nationalists or white supremacists or something:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/el-paso-dayton-shootings-too-soon-guns-white-supremacy-terror.html