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January 4, 2017
James Taranto Says Goodbye to "The Best of the Web"
There is something to be said for going out on a high note, and 2016 was a great year for this column. We don’t claim to have gotten the election right—we were surprised, if only mildly, by Donald Trump’s victory—but most journalists were so spectacularly wrong that simply taking Trump and his supporters seriously was enough to put us at least in the top decile, maybe the 98th percentile, of journalistic sagacity. (In the 99th percentile we’d place cartoonist Scott Adams, reporter Salena Zito and, oddly enough, left-wing propagandist Michael Moore.)
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 4, 2017 8:23 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.