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July 23, 2005
Jonathan Chait Loses It
I remember that some of the guys over at The Corner have expressed a guarded acknowledgement of Jonathan Chait's intelligence. But Chait, senior editor of The New Republic, has made sure that he'll get no respect whatsoever from me.
Pam at Blogmeister USA highlights one of most willfully stupid op-eds I've ever read, in which Chait sneeringly picks at GWB's intense interest in, of all things, physical exercise:
It's nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron. Unfortunately, most of us have more demanding jobs than he does.
Frankly, I’d rather have a president who spends his off-time biking or jogging than seducing young interns in the Oval Office.
Oh, and the bit about the rest of us having “more demanding jobs than he does” was a bit of overkill, wouldn’t you agree? Is helping to run the New Republic really harder than being the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth? In that case, Chait 2008! has a wonderful ring to it.
Here’s an exercise that might benefit Chait: exercising restraint of the obvious distaste he has for President Bush.
BAM!
This almost makes you wonder: Did Chait not sleep for two days before writing this? Did he dash this off after a three martini lunch?
And these guys make fun of bloggers for being unprofessional?
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