5/25/2018

Rolling Stone Comments A Right-Wing Cesspool

We don't do politics here at 5 but it's been increasingly obvious over the last few years that a bastion of liberalism as Rolling Stone magazineas evidenced by the political pieces in its pages over a 50 year historyhas had its comments section overrun by nasty hard right posts for some time now. Granted, Matt Taibbi and others notwithstanding, the magazine has long ago relinquished its role as a cultural standard bearer in politics or even music, and the right wing vitriol by commenters precedes the political career of the über divisive Donald Trump, but the truth is, we've seen more civility in the New York Post's equivalent sections or even on YouTube, for that matter. And when your comments section is nastier than YouTube's, well...