Everyone cherry-picks the left

The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!

Celebrity heartthrob Sydney Sweeney is in a new American Eagle commercial that praises her “good jeans.” Listen to the right talk about this and you’ll learn that the left is extremely mad about the pun, I guess since it could be construed (if you must) as a celebration of eugenics, patriarchal beauty norms, and so on. As Media Matters noted this afternoon, Fox News has been going on about how how mad leftists are about it all week.

And once again, one can only ask: what leftists? With more than 250 million Americans using social media every day you can always find someone saying just about anything, so it’s the least surprising thing in the world you can find a TikTok teen and a handful of columnists wringing their hands about Sweeney’s ad. No one with a child’s understanding of what “anecdotal evidence” means can seriously think that this amounts to evidence of some widespread sentiment among the millions of people on the American left. This just isn’t a serious line of political criticism; it’s the sort of thing you only actually believe if you want to.

If you’re getting a feeling of deja vu here, you are probably remembering the last ridiculous political “controversy” involving Sweeney. That one was a little simpler, but all of the basic notes were the same: