A Smackdown Greater than Its Target
There are many reasons I’ve had Mark Hemingway as a guest on The Delivery. His ability to eviscerate a knucklehead whose mouth has clearly outstripped his brain is but one of them.
I’d like to put the best construction on this and note that Yglesias is expressing a degree of independence from his fellow CAP apparatchiks, who cooked up the smear that the Chamber of Commerce is spending foreign money in elections. But then he goes on to show that he is still enthralled with the Potemkin-village visit that he and several other liberal journalists took recently at the expense of China-United States Exchange Foundation [...]
Morally praiseworthy? Huh? I’m as much in favor of free trade as the next guy, but primarily because it benefits us. Is our government intended to promote American economic interests, or is it an international charity aimed at propping up an evil, despotic government?
And more importantly, if it is a charity, would Rand Paul approve of giving such a charity tax-exempt status? Let me clear my mind and consult Aqua Buddha for an answer.
Who knows what Yglesias is really trying to say? As Mark notes earlier in his post, the man has already admitted he’d lie his fool head off to pick up one more stray scrap of political power, so why waste the time trying to find wisdom in his writing? Were I Matthew Yglesias, I’d leave Hemingway be for a while and go after a target more befitting my abilities. Perhaps Elmo has a blog.
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