Shafer claims that “Those who offered a dissenting or realistic view on McCain were rewarded with abuse,” and uses as evidence for this blanket assertion the negative reaction Vox’s Laura McGann received after tweeting, even more bug-splattingly, “Today, I’m told, we should pretend John McCain didn’t pick Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008.”
No, actually nobody told McGann that; plenty of us have been able to offer dissenting/realistic views on McCain without being over-burdened with abuse, and since when are journalists supposed to be cowed by people being all mean on Twitter? Jesus Christ, people, go ahead and criticize away—after all, the old man did it to himself, and even his closest friends are including among their grieving remembrances phrase like, “He could be impetuous and cantankerous.”
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