Reading the Republic is a lot like reading a Chick Tract. You thumb through it while enjoying your breakfast of perrier and all organic cinnamon bun, laughing at the obvious right wing slant so obvious it reads like leftist propaganda.
But then out of the corner of your eye you see another fellow reading the same thing, but he's not laughing and enjoying his green living breakfast. Instead, he's crying and underlining passages in the text that "resonate with him".
And that's when it dawns on you: you might be having an inappropriate emotional response to this stimuli, as it is not intended for humor, but for spreading intolerance and bigotry throughout the land, and it might be in your best interest to get your news from somewhere else. Also, organic cinnamon buns taste like shit. Never take food advice from someone who, if actually trapped in a supermarket, would starve themselves to death.