Matt Welch, Neocon Mouthpiece
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Justin Raimondo posted an entry on the @TAC blog titled "Matt Welch, Neocon Mouthpiece" on April 2, 2008.[1] The entry was sharply critical of Virginia Postrel, Nick Gillespie, and especially Matt Welch, the three most recent editors of Reason Magazine.
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I followed Raimondo's links looking for some smoking guns and found some casual mentions of Matt and some articles in which he bashes on Chomsky and other liberals for mistaking their own rhetoric for facts (and essentially undermining noninterventionism by associating it with bullshit). Nowhere did I read where Matt advocated interventionist military policy. –Rimfax 22:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Reason sucks. Go Justin, wooo!('cept for Obama, boo!)
04-04-08
You all know me, I'm no stranger--No axes to grind either. My interest in this came as a result of a note from a friend who was all kinda pissed off at Reason after reading the raimondo piece.
I'm not going to say much because this is a public place and some of what I know is proprietary. But I will say this:
I am amused at Raimondo's pretense of inside knowledge of the workings at Reason. The other thing is that almost everything in the article was dead wrong.
The thing is, when someone is dead flat wrong about things that I know for a fact (and he’s obviously lying because he is wrong and he is making it up) it calls into question every single thing the man has ever said about anything or any issue. I don't mean opinions, I mean facts in evidence.
And lastly, Welch as a neo-con? Get real. If I have any disagreements with Matt it's because he isn't libertarian enough (Drink!) and tends to be too liberal in the modern sense (on some issues) but a neo-con? Maybe I'm missing something.
