Discussion: John Podhoretz Is Sorry For Joking About Bombing A Journalism School

His Twitter account may be gone, but his regular seat at MSNBC is still there.

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He seems nice.

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Neutron bombs!

Talk about a blast from the past!

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The derp, it burns.
Especially appropriate to legacy journalists(?).

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So this is what passes for a conservative intellectual, eh?

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Podhoretz is basically acknowledging the lunacy and violet tendencies on the right -not only in America, but across the globe -by apologizing and deleting his account. At least he belatedly realized words have consequences. Meanwhile, Trump fiddles.

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I love Duca and Lavin’s response. When they go low, we go, “Fuck off.”

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just what I thought, calling it a neutron bomb sounds like a very child-of-50s-60s thing to me.

Unfortunately for Pod here, Stupid has no sell-by-date

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Have you ever written something that amused you greatly, full of what you think is the height of wit, sophistication and subtle snark but hesitated a moment to read before irretrievably sending it to the recipient? After rereading you take out all the stupid, childish garbage and it is a much better piece. You’d figure a “public intellectual” and editor of a publication named “Reason” would be intelligent and experienced in the art of journalism and public discourse to do so but apparently not Podhoretz. Apparently Trump has normalized this behavior for the right.

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“I’m Sorry I Blew Myself” by John Podhoretz

Eric must be jealous…

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Ah, no.

Journalists look for the truth. Conservatism has propagandists.

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Well, per his tweet I think Podhoretz wants to use neutron bombs because they would “only” kill humans while leaving the buildings “intact” for other uses.

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You mean…other than almost all my posts on the board…um, no?

Now you tell me…

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Oxy- (and non-oxy-) moron?

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Why do people insist on dredging up statements from twenty-four hours ago?

It was a youthful mistake!

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Yet another conservative who confuses satire with hyperbole. Proper satire requires empathy because you have to be able to understand someone else’s point of view to frame it properly. Like all claims of conservative satire, this would only be satire if it was a liberal mocking a conservative because it makes them look worse and isn’t funny otherwise.

But conservatives use hyperbole to state their actual beliefs in an exaggerated way and think it’s satire because it sounds identical to what a liberal parodying a conservative would say. But they really do mean what they’re saying, which just makes them parodies of themselves and they don’t understand why this doesn’t work. It’s really sad when you think about it.

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He doesn’t know what satire is.

which were unprovoked and therefore entirely unseemly.

Yea, that it was “unprovoked” by two women is the problem :roll_eyes:

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John Podhoretz (jPod) is a revanchist zionist clown who appears to indulge in genocidal fantasies when it comes to other peoples: obliterating a journalism school is the least of them; e.g., “What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn’t kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything?” -jPod

jPod then asks, “Wasn’t the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?” The simple math works out to a pile of corpses that would doubtless have delighted any number of tyrants including a certain Austrian but which might cause a state or person some pause; at least if one wanted to continue any pretense to civilization or humanity.

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Their barrel has no bottom.

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