Matt Gaetz’s Fox New Fiasco Is Yet Another Gross Spectacle

Tucker Carlson admitted it was 'one of the weirdest interviews I've ever conducted.' Why do the rest of us have to put up with this? If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Matt Gaetz's Fox News Fiasco Was an Exhibition for the Grotesque Mediocrity of the Conservative Movement   Matt Gaetz, towering intellect that he's always appeared to be, has entirely ignored his own right to remain silent, culminating in a chat on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show last night that even Carlson was forced to admit was "one of the weirdest interviews I've ever conducted." Tucker might have been eager to emphasize that because, at multiple points, Gaetz seemed to be trying to pull him onto the capsized vessel. Here's Politics Editor Jack Holmes on why Democrats must govern competently and win elections if only to someday render this nauseating form of vaudeville politics untenable. Read More           The 14 Best Tracksuits to Wear for Strutting, Stunting, and Maybe Even Exercising   Adding one more to the Tracksuit Town population count might seem a little daunting at first. I mean, sure, you've worn track jackets and track pants with abandon, but you've worn them separately. Putting them together for maximum tracksuit impact—going Full Tracksuit—is another thing entirely. Are you ready? Of course you are! So. Here we are. Now's the time. You're pulling up to Tracksuit Town at just the right moment. The weather's warming up, but it's still cool enough to get away with a light jacket and pants at once. Take your pick from this list of our favorites. You can't go wrong. After all, you're a resident of Tracksuit Town now. Read More           These Hoka Sneakers Are the Only Shoes I Wear Outside Anymore, and I'm Entirely OK With That   "I've gotten to the point where I no longer have to even think about what shoes I'm going to wear when I leave the apartment," writes Culture Editor Matt Miller. "It's my Hokas. During the few times I've been able to escape the city, I've taken these shoes from urban hiking to real hiking through the Catskills, where they're just as reliable (if not better) on rough terrain as they are on sidewalks. What's especially nice, though, is that I don't have to worry about rolling up to a distanced outdoor gathering looking like a Boy Scout in these hiking shoes, because—and this is very important—they don't look like hiking shoes. The Kaha Lows could pass as sincerely stylish chunky sneakers any day (because they are)." Read More           Dan Pashman Spent Three Years Inventing a Pasta Shape. It Puts Spaghetti to Shame.   "I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. Spaghetti sucks," podcast host Dan Pashman told his audience at New York's Caveat Theater back in 2018. This kind of existential uncertainty is part of the fun of "Mission Impastable," Pashman's recently concluded five-part saga on his food podcast The Sporkful. It kicked off with the Caveat Theater scene, and, spanning three years, culminated in the creation of a brand new pasta shape. Yes, a new pasta. And guess what? Pashman's cascatelli is good. Read More           A Referee Collapsed at an NCAA Basketball Game. We Shouldn't Have Watched It Twice.   About five minutes into last night's NCAA tourney game between Gonzaga and USC, we saw the first seconds of what could've been an unimaginable tragedy. As USC pushed the ball up the court, referee Bert Smith collapsed on the sideline. Commercials played before we found out Smith seemed to be okay. No heart attack or stroke, he was alert and talking to the medics as they rolled him off the court. Game back on. A couple beats later, without any warning, the broadcast queued up the horrifying video of Smith falling backward, landing squarely on his head, with the commentators helpfully narrating the action. Now, showing a video of a man with, you'd assume, a family at home with their hearts in their guts, suffering what was likely a concussion, is messed up. And it's part of a larger problem, damn near a trope, in sports broadcasting. Read More           G. Gordon Liddy Was a Bungler Who Hired Other Bunglers to Burgle For Him   No matter how many elite media outlets describe him as such, George Gordon Battle Liddy was not a "mastermind." He was a dark and twisted little bureaucrat who never should have been trusted with an ounce of actual power. He became famous as the prosecutor who chased down Timothy Leary in Upstate New York, and he ended his career as a rodeo clown on the radio. In between, he "masterminded" what even a crook like John Mitchell called "the White House horrors." He did that so well that he had to send his band of merry men into the Watergate a second time because the bugs they'd planted the first time didn't work. On this trip, they forgot to take the tape off the door they'd used to access the place and, two years later, Richard Nixon was climbing into a helicopter on the White House lawn. American democracy was (temporarily) saved because a bungler hired some other bunglers to burgle for him. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2021 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019