Mighty high cow pie Ezra stepped in, isn’t it? It pains me to see this fumble before the ball is even kicked off. The only possible defense is a combination of overwork and inexperience. In this case, though, that’s still an inadequate excuse, because even if Klein didn’t know about Brandon Ambrosino’s more incendiary work when he hired him, he still shouldn’t have hired him. Running buffoonish culture war nonsense is about as contrary to Klein’s brand as anything I can think of.
Just stupid.
If you want some ideological diversity, that’s reasonable. Just don’t hire charlatans who know nothing about the subjects that they’ll be writing about. The whole point of Vox is supposed to be to help people understand the news. A gay anti-gay bomb-thrower is never going to help get that mission accomplished.
