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There's an old saying that's usually attributed to former President Abraham Lincoln, but I think it appears originally in Maurice Switzer's "Mrs. Goose, Her Book," and it goes like this: "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
Well, this week, Slate.com's Dan Kois learned that the hard way. Sort of. He didn't talk. But he wrote — a hit piece on beloved comedian Martin Short.
With just one headline and deck — "Why We Keep Putting Up With Martin Short: Is the 'Only Murders in the Building' star a comic genius or the most annoying actor on Earth?" — Kois managed to unite the always pensive and never surly Twitter-verse (now "X-verse") around a common enemy: himself.
The speed at which readers likely dropped off Slate after the first graph and responded with an angry tweet must've been astounding.
For all our "deep divisions," journalist Judy Woodruff noted this year, Americans "have always found a way to come back together, through a ...