Saturday, May 19, 2007

Seeing the monitor through the spittle

Matthew Yglesias cites this item by New Republic editor-in-chief Marty Peretz. Parse the key passage, if you can:

This will annoy what's his name who blogs a lot about me. Has he nothing better to blog about? Actually, that's how makes a living: by writing about people who are smarter than him and know more about the world than him. And since neither smarts not knowledge carry much cachet; with the left blogosphere (also not with the right blogosphere) its stars like what's his name ridicule the writers whose arguments he can't quite grasp.


Focus on that last sentence. It's a train wreck of both thought and grammar. Just what you want in an editor.

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