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Meh. It’s not like he’s a real journalist.
Is Newsweek still around? I thought it went under.
Zacharia…some people love him. Frankly, I don’t. I find him to be whatever you call a Foreign Policy Contrarian. Sometimes he’s for war with caveats, and sometimes he’s not, again, with caveats…Altogether, he’s rarely consistent. Which leads me to believe that most of the plagiarism charges against him probably have some merit. He has no core convictions anyone has been able to identify all these years…and that’s from people who seem to know him. If that’s what being a Centrist is all about…I call that bullshit elitism.
I believe he’s been on the board of several foreign policy organizations. He’s a think-tank bloviator, not a real journalist who goes around the world at the ground level to learn vitally new information about the countries he talks about. He has a kind of book knowledge without the kind of personal experience one would expect of a foreign policy expert. I would bet he stays perched above the rest of the countries he reports on, maintaining his effete status, hobnobbing with the other foreign policy in-country elites, who really never venture far outside the food court of many 5 star hotels around the world. Something tells me, that’s where he gets his unique world view. There’s a lot of that these days when it comes to foreign policy. Sadly, they’re all on cable news too or have moved on to the military contracting business in one form or another.
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Intellectually, the concept of columnists has always been, and will forever be, bullsht. I imagine most of these people have legitimate ideas at various times, but none of us has enough insight to write a column every week. The paradigm inevitably leads to an endless flow of bullsht.
Whenever I see stuff like this, I think of a College Game Day commercial from a few years ago. Lee Corso nails it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0Zo6h9FOQ
That’s what you get for giving a plagiarist a second chance.