West has hyped up his announced album even further with the publicity he gained from courting controversy. Liberals have shown off their willingness to enforce ideological purity, no matter who the offender is. And the far right has demonstrated, once again, that they’re willing to flip-flop at the slightest sign that they might be able to land a mainstream celebrity recruit. “Don’t trade your authenticity for approval,” West tweeted last week, to the tune of 170,000 retweets and 344,000 likes. Too late.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35910425)

http://blog.dilbert.com/2011/06/15/pegs-and-holes/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35910485)

author is like 24

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35910512)

Molly likes books, travel, dogs, people, and Oxford commas. She wrote her first signed piece for the Post in 2012, on which a reader commented that she sounded "like an idiot just out of j-school."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35910534)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/09/22/the-other-problem-with-valerie-plames-horrible-anti-semitic-tweet/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35910560)

Just wondering.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35913621)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35913723)

"Then there’s the right, alt and otherwise. Most conservatives had less interest in West’s work, and they certainly didn’t like it when he condemned Bush."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3958605&forum_id=2#35915171)