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Newspaper Columnists Owe Readers Better Than Trolling

WaPo's Kathleen Parker offers an edgy "at least he made the trains run on time"-type argument in a piece about John Fetterman's shorts.

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Parker Molloy
Sep 26, 2023
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Hey everyone. Parker here. I hope you’re all having a good day.

Last week, I decided against writing a piece about David Brooks’s tweet about how *gasp* food is expensive at the airport. Sure, there’s a lot of dunking on it that could be (and has been) done. And sure, it’s funny for a guy who once wrote about taking a $120,000 vacation to whine about spe…

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