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Entry: Who Is Matt Welch? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/who_is_matt_welch#22329 Post contents: lester wrote: > you guys [reason] seemed to reduce the entire [Ron Paul] campaign to the newsletter issue. I admit, they were very edgy in some respects… Lester, rather than “edgy” wouldn’t the more accurate term be “truthful”? Almost all of the critics of the Ron Paul newsletters simply were aghast that the newsletters had pointed out certain truths that are just not supposed to be mentioned, but almost none of those critics went to the trouble to try to argue that the statements in the newsletters were really wrong. To take the most prominent point in the newsletters, the Rodney-King rioters really were overwhelmingly black and really were viciously criminal thugs. What was so wonderful about reason’s breathlessly inane coverage of the newsletter issue was its inspiring refusal to consider whether the statements in the newsletter were actually true – exactly the same behavior as the liberal mainstream media. Let’s be honest – most of the prominent people at reason are simply wannabes who would like to work for the respectable liberal mainstream media. But, since most of the reasonistas are lousy writers who couldn’t write their way out of a freshman writing class, they can’t make it in the real world. So, they settle for writing for a liberal, faux-libertarian, incompetently-edited rag like reason, which almost no one actually reads. Really – why would anyone bother to read reason when they can read much better-edited liberal/neocon mags such as The New Republic? Dave Miller in Sacramento Sent at: 2008 05 16