Ha ha. I was going to listen to the audiobook (commission earned), but I clicked the "Audible sample" button and as soon as Nuzzi's voice began, I clicked it off and exclaimed "Oh, no!"
She was able to get out exactly 6 words: "For the women who have mothered me...."
I was reacting to the voice alone, but the meaning lingered — For the women who have mothered me.... No no no no! I don't know who she's talking about or what they did that constituted "mothering" in her world view and I don't want to know.
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Maybe she should try poetry.
So her voice is Nuzzi-eating?
Oh...she sounds like an ASMR e-girl. Yeah, that's going to drive some people crazy. I wonder if she had some lip-smacking and wet tongue sounds in there too.
OMG the reaction is so funny. Seeing as there’s always big money at the extremes there must be some kind of contrarian play with this woman. I’ll stew on it…
Women run the education system. They did this to her.
Women also perform the female genital mutilations on each other.
Speaking of strange females... Rachel Maddow is so over the top & insane - Gutfeld and his guests take her apart.
Explains certain leftist cultist stuck-in-concrete cultism.
Maybe she’s a comic genius.
Cutting power matters at highway speeds.
I’ll take “Books you can’t make me read for $200,” Alex.
Vogon poetry
The geist of the zeit is defined by both the apex and the nadir. I see nowt lower than Nuzzi for a slice of 2025. *shivers*
The Ruthless Podcast guys played excerpts of her interview with the Dispatch. Yikes! Whatever her intentions with writing this book it seems to have turned into a slow motion very public mental breakdown. Her dependence on jargon and weird new-age mysticism-tinged therapy-speak is highly off-putting and impossible to follow. The Ruthless guys struggled mightily but were unable to determine WTF she was trying to say to the weepy weenie from The Dispatch.
As a result of the internet and social media there are probably more words being written in the English language than ever. The verbal equivalent of empty calories and junk food.
mezzrow said...
The geist of the zeit is defined by both the apex and the nadir. I see nowt lower than Nuzzi for a slice of 2025. *shivers*
Stealing the 2020 election gave the democrats a chance to pull the pendulum back even farther for a few extra years.
I heard Philip Roth read some of his own stuff once that he was great. I wish she would have done his audio books but he refused to. They got some hambone actors to do it.
I dunno, her voice sounds OK to me. the women who mothered me, seems to be one of those sloppy modern phrases like "Enslaved peoples" instead of slaves. Instead of "To my mother" its blah, de blah.
Here’s the backstory on that phrasing per AI:
“In the book, Nuzzi reveals that a woman who had mentored her and been "a mother to me when my mother died" was the person who ultimately informed her employer at New York Magazine about her ethical breach—an emotional and possibly physical affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while covering his 2024 presidential campaign. This mentor was identified as podcaster Kara Swisher, who confirmed she tipped off the magazine's editor, David Haskell.“
My initial attitude on Nuzzi was, “OMG, a Kennedy had an affair, alert the media!” But the affair being with a member of the media is a new twist, I must admit.
AI does have a place summarizing things you don’t want to read and wouldn’t want someone else to have to read and summarize for you.
The verbal equivalent of empty calories and junk food.
Nutritionally speaking empty calories and junk foods are harmful and usually refer to foods engineered to be craved and fool our sense of “fullness.” Bad writing may be uncomfortable to ingest but can’t hurt you.
Unless they’re actually writing about you.
Achilles said:
Stealing the 2020 election gave the democrats a chance to pull the pendulum back even farther for a few extra years.
Thereby unleashing Newton's inevitable and soulless reaction. I once thought the left had enough understanding of basic physics to perhaps be wiser, but I am the fool in that calculation.
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night." - Margo Channing
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