{"id":1631487,"date":"2022-09-03T03:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631487"},"modified":"2022-09-03T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T07:03:04","slug":"wapos-ruth-marcus-pretends-to-be-a-brave-victim-when-shes-really-a-self-obsessed-drama-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapos-ruth-marcus-pretends-to-be-a-brave-victim-when-shes-really-a-self-obsessed-drama-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo\u2019s Ruth Marcus Pretends To Be A Brave Victim When She\u2019s Really A Self-Obsessed Drama Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapos-ruth-marcus-pretends-to-be-a-brave-victim-when-shes-really-a-self-obsessed-drama-queen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It was certainly an interesting choice for Washington Post columnist Ruth \u201cStrega Nona\u201d Marcus to write an 800-word piece about how someone just compared her to a lumpy Italian witch depicted in children\u2019s books. But it\u2019s the choice she made.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the purpose was for Marcus to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partake in every liberal\u2019s favorite pastime<\/a> \u2014 portraying herself as a victim so she can then be called \u201cstunning and brave\u201d by her sophomoric peers on social media. And that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2F2022%2F09%2F02%2Fruth-marcus-federalist-strega-nona-insult%2F&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exactly what happened<\/a>. Journalists at the Post, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Axios, The BBC, and even The New York Times\u2019 Nicholas Kristof \u2014 yes, the Nicholas Kristof \u2014 chimed in to congratulate Marcus on her virtue.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s less stunning and brave than it is predictable and boring.<\/p>\n<p>For context, a column I wrote here Wednesday about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/31\/its-too-late-for-corrupt-media-to-decide-political-violence-is-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the left\u2019s love for political violence<\/a> (so long as it\u2019s coming from their side) referenced a previous piece by Marcus wherein she hysterically characterized innocuous comments made by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as a \u201cthreat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thrust of my column was in the paragraph that followed: \u201cYou would hope by now that Democrats and their friends in the national media have learned something. This isn\u2019t going to be a country where political violence and harassment from their side is met by everyone with acquiescence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Marcus was preoccupied with the part where I quickly described her as the Post\u2019s \u201cStrega Nona lookalike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy column was an argument about ideas \u2014 about how prosecutors should deal with public response to controversial cases,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/02\/ruth-marcus-federalist-strega-nona-insult\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Marcus<\/a>, perhaps while stirring an enchanted pot of pasta. \u201cDisagreement on the merits is fair game; bring it on. But why are looks relevant? What is it that impels Scarry to go there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus also sent me a message on Twitter asking me why it was \u201cappropriate\u201d to liken her to a chubby European sorceress. She also emailed me about it. She also emailed a former colleague, asking that he forward her note. And then she talked to her daughter about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not joking. She said in her own piece that she actually consulted her spawn on what I believe is now officially the dumbest media controversy of 2022. \u201c[M]y point isn\u2019t to fix his behavior or extract an apology \u2014 it\u2019s to push back, Strega Nona style,\u201d wrote doppelg\u00e4nger Nona. \u201cAs my daughter pointed out when I mentioned this incident, \u2018Mom, you know, Strega Nona is kind of a badass.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cringe.<\/p>\n<p>By \u201cpush back,\u201d Marcus means \u201cbe a whiney attention seeker.\u201d She could have written something that rebutted my point \u2014\u00a0that it\u2019s too late for Democrats to pretend they reject political violence \u2014 but she instead spent her day chasing down the person who suggested she resembles the heavyset occultist from a popular kids\u2019 series. All so she could get a pat on the back for <em>bravely <\/em>denouncing me as \u201csexist\u201d and \u201cageist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to speak up because there are a lot of women who might be less well-established in their careers, less confident of their abilities, less resilient,\u201d wrote Marcus in her angry screed. \u201cWho would be too worried about the backlash \u2014 and, frankly, too embarrassed about having been described as old and ugly \u2014 to call out the Eddie Scarrys of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is what it\u2019s like to be <em>called out<\/em>. How will I ever sleep peacefully again?<\/p>\n<p>Marcus isn\u2019t stunning or brave. She\u2019s the type of woman who would harass an innocent stranger in public for not wearing a mask \u2014 literally. She really did that and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2021\/10\/17\/washington-post-editor-trolled-lectured-stranger-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragged about it on Twitter<\/a>. She\u2019s the type of woman to gleefully admit that she would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/i-wouldve-aborted-a-fetus-with-down-syndrome-women-need-that-right\/2018\/03\/09\/3aaac364-23d6-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aborted<\/a> either of her two daughters if she had learned they were going to be born with Down syndrome. She wrote that in 2018 in earnest \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-silenced-majority-of-women-who-would-abort-a-fetus-with-down-syndrome\/2018\/03\/16\/6590579e-293d-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">twice<\/a>. She\u2019s the type of woman who determines whether she believes a rape accusation based on whether the man accused <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/20\/dont-let-washington-post-get-away-with-memory-holing-its-anti-kavanaugh-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is a Republican or Democrat<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not brave. She\u2019s not a victim. Marcus is a narcissist, a nag, and a drama queen. 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