Stacey Singer Chickens Out: Deletes Tweet Rather Than Respond to My Critique
Yesterday afternoon, while out walking our dog Maura, a welcome surprise arrived in my email. Stacey Singer, the health reporter for the Palm Beach Post, responded to my Tatler post critiquing her, 3 Examples of Marxist Bias in This Hit Piece on David Koch:
“Oh how delightful,” I thought while reaching down — bag-in-hand — to collect the siberian husky’s mess from the grass. “Which of my post’s arguments am I going to shoot back in response? Or maybe I’ll address her non-sequitur of being a ‘mouthpiece for the Koch corporate PR machine’? Should I be friendly or fire back some snark?”
Alas, Singer’s tweet ended up in the same place as Maura’s afternoon deposit. Apparently having second thoughts over answering a critic, she deleted the tweet from her timeline.
Perhaps since Singer does not want to justify to me why she thinks the government has the right and duty to criminalize unpaid internships others should ask her. @StaceySinger is her handle on Twitter, or she can be emailed at stacey_singer@pbpost.com. Maybe someone else will have better luck explaining to her why health journalists should not use controversial Marxist concepts like “free market fundamentalism” (one rejected even by Huffington Post contributors) in their stories.
Political correctness, albeit an accidental ideology is one nonetheless. Over the last few decades it has coalesced its own tenets and dogma that are quite recognizable nowadays. PC shares many Marxist tenets which means those tenets are spread about by people unaware of their origins. In the past, commies knew they were commmies; now they just arrange the whole shebang under the general heading of “social justice” and present the whole thing as American as apple pie.
Unfortunately that pie is presented with slices wherein each piece is distributed morality according to hue, consistency and flavor while bewilderingly suggesting at the same time there are no slices in the first place, at least between 10 am and 1 pm or on Sundays or whatever depraved value system swings reality the required way at the time.