Gawker's least important (political) writers of 2013
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[font size=5]With our most gracious and endearing apologies, we now present to you, in alphabetical order, the 22 Least Important Writers of 2013. Please enjoy, if possible.[/font]
[font size=5]Richard Cohen[/font]
It is unclear exactly what the point of Richard Cohen is. Less important than: Any one of the millions of other authority-worshipping old white guys who hate black people and want to fuck 20somethings.
[font size=5]Thomas Friedman[/font]
Hyperconnected mustachioed soothsayer Tom F. has been writing the same god damn column for, hell, over a decade now, ever since it became clear that cab driving and cloud computing could come together to form something long enough to fill an 800-word hole on the New York Times op-ed page. We're actually rather fond of him now, in the same way that you might grow fond of an old dog that refuses to stop chasing its own tail until it vomits. He should be fired at once. Less important than: Cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, the iPad, and cheap Internet-enabled smartphones.
[font size=5]Howard Kurtz[/font]
Avatar of Washington media's inexhaustible tolerance for glaring conflicts of interest and Lauren Ashburn's giggling Fox News sidekick. Kurtz tries to "critique" "the media" but usually winds up accusing newly-out gay NBA players of HIDING THEIR HOMOSEXUALITY FROM THEIR LADY FIANCÉ HAR HAR HAR. Or confusing a Congressman's spokesman for the actual Congressman, or mistakenly labeling something that was reported five years ago a FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE, or...detailing the Facebook photos of...Ben Bradlee's daughter-in-law? Sure. Less important than: "Error establishing a database connection"
[font size=5]Peggy Noonan[/font]
Breathy Reaganite Peggy Noonan lives in a country. America? Yes, that's the one. Peggy Noonan lives in this great nation, America, in the year 1896, which is why she is shocked by race-mixing and hotels and electricity and statistics. Peggy Noonan is one of the most incisive columnists of the 19th century. Less important than: The Hon. Norman Jay Coleman, the Secretary of Agriculture under Grover Cleveland.
[font size=5]Andrew Sullivan[/font]
The grumpy old man of turn-of-the-century warblogging, Andrew Sullivan still has his fans. But having bounced his blog around from TIME to The Atlantic to the Daily Beast to its current "paywall" site run by Sullivan himself, the declining returns of his particular brand of preachy warmongering, apologies for warmongering, jabbering about Catholicism and complaining about New York City have been revealed. Just 30,880 people had subscribed to his Daily Dish as of November 1. Sullivan's "Mini-Me," Ross Douthat, put the nail in the coffin this summer when he named Sullivan "the most influential political writer of his generation." Less important than: Ross Douthat.
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