Slate's Plotz: 'I Flew Slightly off the Handle'
“I hate to admit it, but I flew slightly off the handle,” admits Slate’s Editor David Plotz of his remarks about “disgusting” Wall Street on a Slate political podcast. He had gone into a mini-rant about taking pitch forks to Wall Street. “We should burn them down, we should go after them with pitch forks, knives, guns, mace, anything,” he said.
Even Plotz’s wife reacted to it, telling him, “You know, you sound kind of crazy?”
But then something happened he didn’t expect: Newsbusters picked it up and ultimately he became “Fox News’s pinata” of the day.
Plotz insisted that he was joking around on the podcast, that he was being tongue-in-cheek.But
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