Today on the Dish, Andrew expanded on DSK and men who abuse their power, and argued HIV treatment is prevention. Newt kneecapped Paul Ryan and played the race card, and readers weren't forgiving Newt, even with his daughter's defense. Andrew nailed Newt as a self-important idiot, and picked apart Panetta's letter to McCain on torture. Gary Johnson kicked off his YouTube campaign, Nate Silver tracked Iowa numbers without Huckabee, and we surveyed the full 2012 tea leaf readers. We hit the debt ceiling, feared for the recovery, and parsed why the Republicans are toying with default. Comparing slavery to anything but slavery didn't strike us as right, rich Republicans needed gay marriage in New York, and readers piled on George W. Colbert played with PACs, and Trump grasped at the last straws of his celebrity.
Israel faced an Arab Spring, Beinart nailed the way forward for Zionism, and Andrew pushed Netanyahu towards being on the right side of history. Gifted kids weren't getting more gifted (but readers stood up for them), we feared all the wrong things, and the NYT had a history of being deferent to the US. Dan Savage couldn't understand his status as an icon, and Sarah Palin ruined the career of Sarah Palin. Alan Jacobs didn't consider Twitter is a popularity contest, Kindles don't make for great study buddies, and email footers aren't legally binding. Lost endings were unearthed, we raised a glass to healthy drinking, sequels soared, and Nicola Twilley sopped up our coffee shirt stains.
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–Z.P.
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