Tag: Slate

DERP: Slate confuses Wisconsin with Wyoming in Kanye headline (because they both start with W?)

According to Slate, Kanye West will be retiring to a mountaintop in Wisconsin to do some soul searching … because you know, there are SO MANY mountains in Wisconsin.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/05/09/derp-slate-confuses-wisconsin-with-wyoming-in-kanye-headline-because-they-both-start-with-w/

Slate meteorologist’s diagnosis of #Blizzard2016 catalyst is SHOCKING (no, not really)

Some of the same people who were just one month ago citing the warm Christmas in the east as evidence of the onslaught of “global warming” are now using the opposite as evidence of same. Among those twisting themselves into pretzels to explain why every single weather event is linked to global warming is Slate meteorologist Eric Holthaus:

And remember, single weather events are not “climate,” unless they are.

The science is settled!

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2016/01/25/slate-meteorologists-diagnosis-of-blizzard2016-catalyst-is-shocking-no-not-really/

‘The victim’: Who cares that Hillary defended an accused rapist in 1975?

http://twitter.com/#!/Slate/status/478995515364089856

The effort to clear the decks for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign continues. Now we learn that Clinton defended an accused rapist in 1975.

“Who cares?” asks Slate in a tweet today. Take the click bait and you’ll wind up at an article by Amanda Marcotte headlined, “It Shouldn’t Matter That Hillary Clinton Defended an Accused Rapist in 1975.” Does Marcotte make the case?

It turns out there’s a difference between “Should it matter?” and “Who cares?”

http://twitter.com/#!/psherm07/status/478998754234994689 http://twitter.com/#!/gypsyluc/status/478997437063778304

The Washington Free Beacon was able to dig up the tapes of an early ’80s interview for Esquire magazine in which Hillary laughs when questioned about the case.

http://twitter.com/#!/Tark31/status/478997654844612609 http://twitter.com/#!/Tark31/status/478997258654859266 http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/478999975196504064 http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/478997082838024192 http://twitter.com/#!/chelseagrunwald/status/478996586073047041 http://twitter.com/#!/JohnG405/status/478997897531248640 http://twitter.com/#!/rockmom/status/479003581526581248 http://twitter.com/#!/DanRiehl/status/478394311084888065 http://twitter.com/#!/ConservativeLA/status/478999358436687872

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/17/the-victim-probably-who-cares-that-hillary-defended-an-accused-rapist-in-1975/