Arta, when I said what I did about your remark describing how titles affect you I was responding to what you said in the comment it is attached to.  I was not responding to a different formulation of the point you now claim you were making.

You have promoted here at dag tweets by Yglesias countless times but now in one of your many statements that creates a self-contradiction within your statements, you say that it was apparent just by reading that headline that Yglesias, along with Beauchamp, was saying the same thing as Tracey.

 “Well I gave you two examples about other journos that are saying the same thing as him, SO THE POINT: his title is bullshit … …”  

 He's [Tracey] doing such blatant straw manning I've rarely seen much worse. 

In fact, Beauchamp did not say the same thing at all, his remark was not even on the same subject, and Yglesias’ agreement with that unrelated comment in no way supports your conclusion that they are both saying the same thing as Tracey, but if it were true that they were then by your twisted reasoning it would make the three of them the purveyors of the same mistake. By creating your own strawman argument you get it so wrong that you call Tracey's thesis [which did not make a strawman argument that I can see but only reffered to others' outrage as misdirected] one of the worst cases of a strawman argument you have seen but only apply that conclusion to Tracey and not to the many other writers which you claim have already made the same arguments. 

And lo and behold,  to top it off, you continue with some dumb crap about Neo-Con media blitz AS IF ANYONE IS TALKING NEO-CON LIKE IT'S STILL 2006. There hasn't been a "neo-con media blitz" as we once knew it in quite some time.

 That is just wrong. Simply and obviously wrong. Many of the same mongers are mongering the same neocon interventionist bullshit they have said from the start and for the same twisted reasons which claim among other reasons, but do not honestly include, humanitarian excuses.  The Lincoln Project is an example and there are many others getting top billing in the most read, most respected, mainstream media as was pointed out in the video I linked to.

Can't you see that you are reading the same shit over and over and over and over by different authors for bias verification and pretending that it's different? 

You apparently cannot see that you are doing exactly what you are accusing me of. You have posted multiple links and quotes endorsing the Lincoln Project, for instance, whose members were wrong from the start and continue to be wrong and who, along with so many of their ilk, have not gone away and have not quit preaching from the same book. And, they showed themselves to be cynical corrupt money grubbers. As a bow to the reasonable conversation you claim to want, I think you should realize that you grab onto bias confirmation as quickly and hold on as tightly as anyone else and you should accept the possibility that someone you reflexively disagree with might be as honest even as yourself in their attempt to see events as clearly as possible and is just as interested in getting thoughtful, intelligent, and informed analysis and commentary as are you.

p.s. I do agree with PP that you recommend a lot of old hacks.that I would never waste time reading. You think it means something that they write in long form. Big fucking deal, long form can be shit too.

Yeah, long form can be shit too. Maybe you finally came to realize that which would explain why you don’t incessantly post articles from the NYT anymore. Not that all of them are or were shit but they sure did provide their share. 

 PP at least pays you the respect of arguing about it.

That is such a ridiculous statement that it is actually funny in its perverse wrongness. Respect? How many times would PP have to accuse you of metaphorically sucking someone’s or some entity’s dick before you would consider it to be the grossly crude and certainly impolite way for a mind with a rotten dark spot in it to convey their disagreement? Do you actually think PP shows respect when he rants so often in that way about his disagreements with anyone, not just me, who thinks he does not have everything perfectly figured out and has the audacity to say so?