From the New Yorker website:

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The New Yorker is a splendid mag and the best weekly read around, but sometimes it’s like they’re trying to prove Mickey Kaus right:

Like many New Yorker policy articles, [Malcolm] Gladwell’s reads like a lecture to an isolated, ill-informed and somewhat gullible group of highly literate children. They are cheap dates. They won’t think of the obvious objections. . . . They just need to be given a bit of intellectual entertainment and pointed off in a comforting anti-Bush direction.

NYC is said to be cosmopolitan which is supposed to mean sophisticated.

What it invariably really means is:

“huge variety of unlikely people jammed into an improbable location pretending not to notice each other”.

That’s the Bacon Biscuit definition of cosmopolitan.

Not to be confused with Neopolitan.

Either an ice cream or a reference to an Italian locality.

Or the magazine Cosmopolitan, which is “25 ways to find a man’s G-spot”.

Huh ?

Gee, we read and enjoy the New Yorker, and we’re certainly not wealthy.  My lady might cop to being a liberal, but I’m a Libertarian.  (Sorry to disappoint you, RSmith!)

That being said, yes, the article was quite obviously written by someone who’s in fundamental disagreement with virtually every tenet, old or new, of the Republican Party.

There are plenty of conservative rags in New York. The Post being one, the WSJ being another. They’re easy to find by following the publications that AREN’T scrambling for ways to shore up declining revenues and readership.

Wealthy leftists propping up snot rags like the New Yorker will always be around. Just like NPR. That does’nt mean anyone actually cares what they say. Ask MSNBC.

Karma time...just around the corner.

Yeah. If we were just more conservative nothing would go wrong. But, but, but, we did have conservative leadership and just about everything humanly imaginable did go wrong.

Oh no, if we were only conservative, we wouldn’t see it that way. Damned whiney complaining liberals.

Never satisfied. Many of them female.

(oh, let’s not go there)

The T-D is calling for more conservatism in a New York institution ? Okay, is Media General going to fund a liberal magazine in Richmond since it is the monopoly paper ?
But look at the bright side, we have Ross Mac Kamikaze, Bart and Culbertson to lecture the left here in Richmond.
Bart is always coming up with something wrong in New York, California, Vermont. Meanwhile back in Richmond ...

Nah. (not disagreeing with Bill)

There are lots of conservatives in NYC, including the lately reknowned Buckley, but they rarely go out in public, prefering limo to subway, and rarely use their real names in public.

It reads like a condescending lecture to conservatives because you are conservative. Conservative theories on the rise of liberalism and the cult of FDR read like a condescending lecture to liberals because they are liberal.

In other words “It’s the audience stupid”. (was that condescending ?)

Plus, it is the New Yorker after all. The New Yorker was probably talking down to Bart’s distant ancestors long before he came into the world, much less objected to this particular article.

Plus, any conspiracy theory is bound to sound a bit lurid, since conspiracy theories tend to substitute random conjecture for fact.  Who was it who said that conspiracies make more sense than fact because they aren’t required to be true ?

Anything that explains Nixon just has to sound like a conspiracy theory, because there is no sound and reasonable explanation for that little period of history.

It was after all the period of history that preceded and set the stage for the 1974 riot the T-D finds so quaintly historical, or the published photo of a local swell looking quite dapper in his zooty suity with a moustache and an Afro. No, it was not Pantele. Nor Citizen Kaine.

No more hints.

I remember many years ago, Saturday Night Live did a skit about the last straight guy in San Francisco.  They should do one about the last true conservative in New York City…

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