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What's with the "Beer enthusiast" comment?

• ergothus 8y ago
  During the confirmation hearings Kavanaugh repeatedly explained his high-school (and presumably college) activities by defensively and repeatedly emphasizing that "I like beer". Regardless of any good/bad quality of it, he was clearly defensive and memorable, and many memes were born. I'd suspect that ~arstechnica~ [Edit: Guardian, link was changed since I first read it] is showing how "hip" and "with it" they are by bonding with their audience on this point - so far as I know, some of those both those for and against Kavanaugh's confirmation made fun of that exchange, so while I'd not be surprised to find an anti-kavanaugh tilt in the author, I suspect the inclusion was for less political and more marketing reasons.
  • AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
    The term "beer enthusiast" was actually used in the Guardian article that was originally submitted--it appears nowhere in the Ars Technical article.
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