The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal’s “Best of the Web” at The Wall Street Journal written by the editor, James Taranto.
Two Columnists in One!
Worst Appeals to Authority
“They voted for [Trump] despite the fact that he had two newspaper endorsements to Clinton’s 57, among the nation’s 100 largest newspapers. . . . White voters weren’t swayed when 63 of his statements that the Washington Post fact-checked were deemed false.”—Jenée Desmond-Harris, Vox, Nov. 9
Answer to Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Why HuffPost’s [sic] Presidential Forecast Didn’t See a Donald Trump Win Coming”—headline, Huffington Post, Nov. 10
Why Do Bad Things Always Happen to Him?
“Trump’s Joy Is Obama’s Pain: Barack Faces Destruction of Legacy by the Donald’s Presidency’—headline, Daily Mail website (London), Nov. 9
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