tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post2304392528453918131..comments2024-02-26T17:13:18.702-06:00Comments on DemoCurmudgeon: WSJ Columnist Chris Rickert: "...having ALEC on your resume may well be a feather in a prospective president’s mortarboard."Democurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-78014873070058633602015-01-31T07:59:46.302-06:002015-01-31T07:59:46.302-06:00Gareth, whoever you are, your comment i spot on. ...Gareth, whoever you are, your comment i spot on. Even considered within the not-so-proud journalistic history and tradition of WSJ, Rickert is the absolute worst. I'd be Okay with him were he a thoughtful, consistent conservative. In actuality he's just out to say what seems shocking or unusual, in what I think it an attempt to get as many online reads as possible. For some time now I've assumed that "Chris Rickert" is actually a computer program designed to take the most obtuse view of any issue and then create a meaningless, illogical argument in favor of that view. <br /><br />On the bright side, during the protests of a few years ago, it was his columns that cemented my decision to cancel my subscription. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-65352622901311007472014-01-11T16:13:22.399-06:002014-01-11T16:13:22.399-06:00Rickert is absolutely the biggest idiot ever to wr...Rickert is absolutely the biggest idiot ever to write for a Madison newspaper and that includes Dave Blaska, which says a lot. I'm assuming he's married to the publisher's daughter or belongs to the same fundamentalist cult, otherwise I don't see why he has a job. <br /><br />The first time I read one of his columns --if you can call them that-- I was so astounded by the incomprehensibility, the incredible stupidity and lack of content that I was compelled to post a response to their online forum asking if the newspaper had ceased employing editors. For this they banned me. Not much punishment there I have to say.<br /><br />Rickert is a tumor on the living body of journalism.Garethnoreply@blogger.com