Schadenfreude is a Dish Best Served Cold

From The Other McCain - What Part of ‘Learn to Code’ Do We Need to Explain to Laid-Off Journalists?

The journalists (so-called) of the LA Times expect us to feel sorry for them because they've been laid off. Do we?

Does she look particularly Hispanic to you? I say this as someone with a Hispanic son-in-law and daughter-in-law, both of whom are wonderful people from families that are at least as affluent as my own. The notion that every person of Hispanic ancestry is a victim of racist oppression — mired in poverty, “living in the shadows” as “undocumented,” etc. — is contradicted by may own direct observations. Gobbling down grilled steak at poolside with the Argentine in-laws, you don’t really get much of a sense of la lucha continúa radicalism. Just sayin’ . . .

So here is Jean Guerrero, who certainly doesn’t look even like some kind of peasant mestizo, bemoaning her recent layoff:

Click thru for the moaning. Oh whoa is me, no one wanted to read my Leftist screeds and now I'm out of a job. I would feel bad for her, I really would, if I didn't hate journalists. (I have been laid off. Sometimes it was expected - after 9/11 - and sometimes it came out of the blue. It isn't' fun, but it is part of life.)

We don’t hate her for being Latina. We hate her for being a journalist. Hating journalists is a tradition that can unite all Americans.

And that is coming from Robert Stacy McCain, who made a living for decades as a journalist, before he recovered.