Some news days remind me of that Yogi Berra line about the restaurant where “nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”
The Twitterverse’s biggest topic today involves truly obnoxious and idiotic comments that TV news personality Tucker Carlson made 10 or 20 or a gazillion years ago when talking to shock jocks and trying to be funny. My colleague Erin Dunne had the best take on that teapot tempest this morning, which was basically that conservatives shouldn’t defend Carlson’s remarks — not that Carlson really defended them — but it’s also reasonable to object to the “social justice outrage mob” that is pointlessly digging up old sludge.
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