The Rigorous Political Analysis from The Atlantic

Joshua Green, who is a senior editor of The Atlantic, take an entertaining look at How Lebron’s Move [to Miami] Helps the Tea Party.

However, I only read the first two paragraphs, and couldn’t continue after reading this:

So LeBron James is abandoning Cleveland for sunny Miami. That’s a tough break for Ohio sports fans. But what effect might LeBron’s departure have on Ohio’s politics? I think it helps the Tea Party, for reasons I’ll lay out.

First, let’s stipulate that reading any kind of meaning into a celebrity sports event is by its very nature pretty ridiculous, more like fortune-telling than the rigorous political analysis you’ve come to expect from The Atlantic.

I nearly chocked on my coffee while reading that bolded (by me) phrase.

This is the same place that still employees Andy Sullivan, right? He of the Trigg-Sarah-Bristol Palin conspiracy theories obsession (does he write about anything else these days?) Any claims to “rigorous political analysis” are out the window when you have a person who is clearly insane and living completly detached from reality as this publication’s most prominent voice is.

Honestly, I don’t know why I even bother clicking over to The Atlantic at all anymore — regardless of who’s doing the writing.

(For what it’s worth, the only person that benefited from LeBron James’ prima donna act was Lebron James. The only group it helps is the Miami Heat box office to sell more basketball tickets.)