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He complained about how confusing it was to find the place in the city he’d presided over for four terms. Barry commanded the stage as if we’d all been assembled for him all along. When Barry passed in 2014, Labash wrote a follow up/eulogy:īut Jonah Goldberg, who was standing five feet in front of me and clamoring most loudly, waved me off, saying, “Not you, him!” He pointed to Marion Barry, who had materialized out of the ether, after kissing my mother and sister (platonically, I think). Mayor and constant spectacle Marion Barry. Marion Barry, Human Being(November 23, 2014)įly Fishing with Darth Vader, Matt’s incredible 2011 collection of essays, included the definitive profile of former D.C. He gratefully downed it and, a short time later, took the stage… Matt Labash – The Libertarian Trump? I’m going to get run out of this room on a rail.” By the time we reached the debate hall, though, he seemed to be nervous about whatever he had cooking, repeatedly hack-coughing, from uneasiness or Pyramid smoke residue or out of self-disgust that he didn’t think to bring a tequila.Īs he kept coughing, I handed him a watery Maker’s Mark–the first and probably last time I’ll ever feed whiskey to a presidential candidate, pre-debate. I’m going to tell people why this is f-ed up.

He told me beforehand that “I am doing something unprecedented in quote, politics. McAfee himself chose to warm up in the bar with campaign staffers, who tweeted an invite for delegates to join them. His adventures are nothing short of spectacular:īefore the official C-SPAN debate on Saturday there was an untelevised warm-up debate on Thursday. Labash embedded in the late John McAfee’s doomed 2016 Libertarian Party nomination bid. If you’re not familiar with his work I’m linking to some of my favorite pieces of his below 1:

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While he didn’t completely stop writing (Read his defenestration of Eric Metaxas back in April), this new project promises to be his first regular series since the magazine days. Labash entered semi-retirement in the aftermath of Philip Anschutz’s bloody massacre of The Weekly Standard in 2018 when Clarity Media decided there was no room for a Neocon rag dissension in Donald Trump’s America.

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There’s a free tier, but I’d highly encourage signing up for the paid version if you can. Go subscribe to it immediately for bi-weekly dispatches from the most talented and compelling writer in the country bar none. Matt Labash came out of retirement today to launch Slack Tide.