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Michael Hobbes
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MHmichaelhobbes.bsky.social

Personally I think we should not let Nuzzi's bad ethics distract too much from the fact that her reporting was also bad. nymag.com/intelligence...

Trump Haters Turned Trump Voters Why do so many Americans seem open to giving him a second chance?
By Olivia Nuzzi, New York’s Washington correspondent
Karyn Olson did not want to vote for Donald Trump.
I first met Olson in February 2020 ... At the time, she worked for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission as the supervisor in the accounts-payable department, about a 30-minute commute from her home in rural Bristol, and in her spare time, she volunteered for President Trump’s reelection effort.
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Ttlatshaw.bsky.social

Her writing feels so strange to me. Like it's both flowery yet extremely basic at the same time?

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WTwarrenterra.bsky.social

Really feeling the urge to plumb the depths of the complex, conflicted soul of the sort of person who "bulldozed through a crowd of protestors outside a MAGA rally with both middle fingers raised in the air".

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Rriwoche.bsky.social

As a corollary, personally I think we should not let New York Magazine's bad ethics distract too much from the fact that their reporting is also bad. If Nuzzi keeps her job then my recommendation would be for Vox Media to permanently transform NY Mag into what it has long been: a shopping blog

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RBrussbengtson.bsky.social

wait she keeps a semiautomatic *rifle* in a *drawer*? that's a big drawer.

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TPunchi.org

I don't have any desire to defend Nuzzi, but these excerpts don't seem to be making a strong point about her reporting. It's not even slightly implausible that a Trump volunteer in 2020 might have decided by 2024 that he was washed up and no longer viable.

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MLelkmovie.bsky.social

Nuzzi's a dodo, but I don't see a problem here except for the fact that she was lazily re-using a source - volunteering for Trump in 2020 and hoping that somebody else is the Republican nominee in 2024 because you think Trump will lose are not inconsistent positions.

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Wweirwoodtreehug.bsky.social

It's interesting that she's getting the treatment usually reserved for straight white male sex pests. What's the deal? She got blackmail material on powerful men? Or is she just an off the charts pick me?

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Hjdrch.bsky.social

Bet she's an undecided voter tooBet she's an undecided voter too

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Ggavinneedham.bsky.social

“Or whomever the Democratic Establishment decided to install” that’s from JANUARY. It’s clear she was biased.

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Aamdiamanti.bsky.social

How many times in 8 years have we heard about GOP loyalists who aren't happy Trump is the nominee but will vote for him because they hate the Dems more? Did we really need yet another article about them? Is this really illuminating anything we don't already know? Is there any useful info here?

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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
54.2k followers690 following3k posts