On the state of punditry as illustrated by the responses to the Virginia Tech shootings

From Sadly, no:

What depresses me about this isn’t that these people have such terrible opinions. What depresses me is that they are paid money to express them.

I don’t understand it. I really don’t. You could find more informed and enlightened commentary by interviewing the guy on the 39 Bus in Boston who thinks he’s the Invisible Man. Why isn’t he being paid six figures to write weekly columns for the National Review? Hell, he wouldn’t even require all that money- just give him a cheeseburger, and he’ll gladly pen 3,000 words explaining why people who get shot by angry psychopaths deserved to die because they didn’t pack heat and/or were Muslamoatheists. What the hell.

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