{"id":9957,"date":"2017-03-20T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:26:06","slug":"9957-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9957-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Untoward 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Angry Reader:<\/h3>\n

After reading your discombobulated thoughts on Academy Awards, Mayor Bloomberg, et al., I now know why newspapers have traditionally been used as toilet tissue.<\/i><\/p>\n

M. Buendia<\/em><\/p>\n

Breinigsville PA<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:<\/h3>\n

Dear Angry Reader M. Buendia,<\/span><\/p>\n

Are such angry letters mass produced in some central clearing house? No argument: CHECK; typical personal smear: CHECK; incoherence: CHECK.
\nAll I needed from you is a simple refutation that 1) the Academy Awards were not Trump Bashing and did prove incompetent in not being able to identify the best picture awardee; 2) that Mayor Bloomberg talked of utopian solutions but could not remove snow from city streets promptly after a blizzard. Instead, your argument is that the newspaper is rightly used as toilet paper, but in your case not until you (firstly I assume) read it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an Angry Reader: After reading your discombobulated thoughts on Academy Awards, Mayor Bloomberg, et al., I now know why newspapers have traditionally been used as toilet tissue. M. Buendia Breinigsville PA Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply: Dear Angry Reader M. Buendia, Are such angry letters mass produced in some central clearing house? No argument: CHECK; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2AB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9954,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9954-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9957,"position":0},"title":"Academy Untoward","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"03\/17\/17 From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson. 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