Josh Barro takes on Charles C.W. Cooke; Readers sense great butthurt

http://twitter.com/#!/Neal_Dewing/status/495653409656438784

Upshot and New York Times reporter Josh Barro stepped in today to defend Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, whom National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke included in a list of “self-professed nerds” in a National Review piece about “America’s nerd problem” titled “Smarter than Thou.” Or, as Yglesias called it:

http://twitter.com/#!/mattyglesias/status/495649894649311232

That led Barro to respond.

http://twitter.com/#!/jbarro/status/495650259658227712

Well?

http://twitter.com/#!/murgatr0id/status/495664452331909120
http://twitter.com/#!/GayPatriot/status/495652632615477249
http://twitter.com/#!/RobProvince/status/495653567081222144
http://twitter.com/#!/willcollier/status/495654683240062977
http://twitter.com/#!/0ryuge/status/495655319612444672
http://twitter.com/#!/VonCsefalvay/status/495664464562503680
http://twitter.com/#!/Beer__Wolf/status/495656101246148608

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/02/josh-barro-takes-on-charles-c-w-cooke-readers-sense-great-butthurt/