EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

In summary, I'm not a Marxist. But I worry that political conservatives are going to turn me into one.

yglesias otm

in summary

Oh you nerd Yglesias (yeah narcissism of small differences but JEEZ):

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2013/05/star_trek_movies_and_tv_series_which_are_the_best_why.single.html

leave it to yglesias to think voyager is better than the original series

Also in Slate, Matthew Yglesias ranks every Star Trek movie, television series, villain, and crew member.

Every extra, every continuity problem, and every time he desperately dreamed of Orion slave women.

Top Ten Tribbles

Ezra Klein just read a XKCD comic on air

and you were watching

hey man I lean forward

haha

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/15/eating_lunch_outside_sucks_stay_inside.html

god how much does this twerp get paid

youve done it again mr yglesias

http://prospect.org/article/ezra-kleins-blind-spot

Klein's article also never really covered rich people tax deductions, effective corporate tax rates (after deductions), or the capital gains tax rate and who that benefits

http://i.imgur.com/OfZYOtA.png

http://i.imgur.com/4SZfh3F.png

oh no who will save matt from weird twitter

http://i.imgur.com/ghw4mCj.png

The best strategy for expressing displeasure is to do nothing.

cause thats what he always does

all your interactions w/ me should be pleasurable ones

Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
Finished the new @Gladwell on my flight. Don’t listen to the haters. His books keep getting better.

he's only read this one but already he feels comfortable making inferences based on limited data.

Once again, Yglesias with the fresh, unconventional insights:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/27/red_lobster_s_bad_food_problem_it_s_egregious.html

Matt Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 44m
Everyone praising Red Lobster's cheesy biscuits should look up "exception that proves the rule."

damn, harsh

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more urgent lobster analysis

sticky lobster

matt yglesias is a pretty good blogger like i understand why everyone hates him because he is disgusting but hes pretty good, also he writes a lot of posts which is good

wait, why is yglesias "disgusting"?

just like a disgusting human

the sad thing is he's actually probably one of the best things on slate, he's only really bad if you compare him to, yknow, good things

hes pretty good tho

on the other hand ive decided ezra is not good and i unfollowed him and dont read him anymore

ezra is just dumb srsly no clue get a clue ezra

I agree with the above posts by lagoon

ezra was fooled by paul ryans brainy young republican with charts routine never forget

guess we now know how much Ezra Klein isn't worth to WaPo

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>I look forward to investing in <a href="https://twitter.com/ezraklein";>@ezraklein</a>'s new startup.</p>— Eric Ries (@ericries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericries/statuses/418938926477242368";>January 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
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oops
that was a tweet showing that Eric Ries is excited to back Ezra's startup.

Un fucking believable.

http://yellowhammernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/YH-Bill-Simmons-and-Nate-Silver.png

not pictured: ezra klein

they both look very focused

After consultation with the newspaper’s editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/business/media/blogger-said-to-plan-to-leave-the-post.html

8 figures!

some sort of gold website or something

mansplanatory journalism

Dude knows you can set up a wordpress blog for free, right?

yes but does the post

the eight figures he was asking for sounds more like he wanted the post to just give him all the money and hed do it himself, where grantland and 538 prob have their own editorial budgets id imagine lots of their technical and promotional stuff is just handled by espn, like the site lives on their servers etc, the whole thing in some ways is just a branding exercise, sounds like klein wanted a more independent thing like what greenwald is doing cause if youre just gonna hire some reporters it not gonna cost $10m