<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Best Of The Dish&nbsp;Today]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The Onion&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.clickhole.com/">Clickhole</a>&#8221; debuts and finally sinks its teeth into the big fat juicy target called Buzzfeed:</p>
<p><a href="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png"><img data-attachment-id="245009" data-permalink="https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/12/the-best-of-the-dish-today-180/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm/" data-orig-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=580&#038;h=420" data-orig-size="660,479" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 7.35.02 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=580&#038;h=420?w=300" data-large-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=580&#038;h=420?w=660" class="alignnone wp-image-245009 size-full" src="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=580&#038;h=420" alt="Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 7.35.02 PM" width="580" height="420" srcset="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=580&amp;h=420 580w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=150&amp;h=109 150w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png?w=300&amp;h=218 300w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-35-02-pm.png 660w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" /></a></p>
<p>Seriously, <a href="http://www.clickhole.com/">just tool around in there</a>. And keep reminding yourself this is a parody. Which, given the original pap, is quite an achievement. And this is just a classic parody of Buzzfeed&#8217;s whoring out of content to advertisers, in a section called &#8220;CashHole&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png"><img data-attachment-id="245016" data-permalink="https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/12/the-best-of-the-dish-today-180/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm/" data-orig-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=467&#038;h=540" data-orig-size="467,540" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 7.45.48 PM" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=467&#038;h=540?w=259" data-large-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=467&#038;h=540?w=467" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-245016" src="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=467&#038;h=540" alt="Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 7.45.48 PM" width="467" height="540" srcset="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png 467w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=130&amp;h=150 130w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-12-at-7-45-48-pm.png?w=259&amp;h=300 259w" sizes="(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px" /></a>Meanwhile, Marc Lynch has a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/12/iraq-trapped-between-isis-and-maliki/" target="_blank">must-read</a> on the disintegration of Iraq. He&#8217;s particularly sharp on our ability to shape anything Maliki does:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maliki wants U.S. military aid, from helicopters to airstrikes, to fight the ISIS advance. Many in Washington will want to offer assistance to save Iraq from complete collapse. But at the same time, U.S. policymakers understand from painful experience that such military aid will simply enable Maliki’s autocratic sectarianism and allow him to avoid making any serious concessions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Instead, we&#8217;d be likely to become Maliki&#8217;s protector, which would make the US much more likely a target for the ISIS Jihadist lunatics. We really want to paint that target on our back? And join Iran in a Shiite-Sunni regional war, alongside &#8230;<em> Assad</em>? The mind boggles. But never under-estimate the &#8220;something-must-be-done&#8221; crowd. This is an acid test, it seems to me, for Obama&#8217;s foreign policy coherence and credibility. Will he blink as he did on Libya and return us to that vortex? Or will he have the strength to keep his distance, as he has done on Syria?</p>
<p>Today, I tackled the question of deepening cultural and <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11Hi" target="_blank">political polarization</a> in the US and had a somewhat alarming evening <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/12/our-cold-civil-war-intensifies/" target="_blank">watching Fox News hysteria</a>. We pored further over the meaning &#8211; or lack of it &#8211; in <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11GU" target="_blank">Eric Cantor&#8217;s political demise</a> and Dave Brat&#8217;s <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11GV" target="_blank">theo-political philosophy</a>. Plus: <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11Ga" target="_blank">rapshirts for white people</a>!; Hillary <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11Jp" target="_blank">gets defensive</a> (understandably) on marriage equality; and the <a href="http://wp.me/p33JF9-11J2" target="_blank">resilient power </a>of right-wing populism.</p>
<p>The most popular post of the day was <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/11/dont-under-estimate-the-power-of-right-wing-populism/" target="_blank">Don&#8217;t Under-Estimate The Power of Right-Wing Populism</a>. Next up: <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/12/our-cold-civil-war-intensifies/" target="_blank">Our Cold Civil War Intensifies.</a></p>
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