The Worst People in the World
27th January 2026
You think you hate the liberal media enough, but you don’t — and that’s probably a good thing. It would be psychologically unhealthy to hate anyone as much as the liberal media deserve to be hated.
Heather Schwedel is a writer for Slate, which was one of the pioneering political commentary sites back in the dial-up modem days of the 1990s. If you’re old enough to remember when AOL discs came in a box of cereal — seriously, that actually happened for a few months in 1996 — you may remember when Microsoft hired Michael Kinsley (former New Republic editor and then co-host of CNN’s Crossfire) to be editor of Slate.
That was 30 years ago. In 2004, the Washington Post purchased Slate, but when Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, he had no use for Slate, which is now property of a separate firm, Graham Holdings. This trek down memory lane doesn’t do much to explain why Heather Schwedel is on Slate’s payroll, but it does give you some sense of the downward trajectory of Slate’s prestige. The latest milestone on this descent into infamy is Schwedel’s article with this headline, “Well, That Is One Way for J.D. and Usha Vance to Respond to the Erika Kirk Divorce Rumors.”
The Shit-Losers: Amanda Marcotte, Jennifer Rubin, Will Bunch, Greg Sargent, Philip Bump. Their entire job is thinking up new names to call Trump. That’s all they do. Report on the news? Sorry, ain’t nobody got time for dat.
January 27th, 2026 at 15:36
The only good thing about Slate was the occasional article from Camille Paglia. Yes, she’s the lesbian writer who’s about 30 kilometers left of Lenin, but she’s pretty honest about where her politics lie. Many years ago, there was some sort of big press dinner and the asshats who ran it thought it would be hilarious to sit Paglia next to Rush Limbaugh. The two of them got along fabulously – again because despite their differences, they were both honest about where they were coming from. Very much unlike MSNBC or CNN where they claim to be fair, balanced, and centrist when even their staff has a hard time maintaining a straight face saying it. When Rush lit up a cigar after the dinner, Paglia asked if he had another, and the two of them sat, smoked, and talked while the herd stared in shock. Limbaugh spent his whole program the next day talking about it. Paglia once wrote an amazing dissection of Hillary Clinton. Read it and Hillary’s otherwise very strange life makes sense. Still evil, but with logic.