I considered making this a “Journalists Who Are Idiots (But I Repeat Myself)” entry, but Ali is worse than an idiot.
Ali’s site describes him as an author and playwright, but Tyler Perry he is not. Instead, Ali appears trapped in a perpetual Twitter argument with a parody of a MAGA person that exists in his head.
To understand Ali, watch a viral CNN clip he appeared in with hack Don Lemon and human thumb / Lincoln Project grifter Rick Wilson. Wilson mocks Trump supporters, speaking in an exaggerated Southern accent. Lemon laughs as though he has never heard a joke before. Ali does a bad Southern accent.“You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling,” he “jokes.” Lemon laughs as if Ali has unlocked a level of funny that might actually be dangerous in the wrong hands.
This episode demonstrates who Ali is. He cannot go two seconds without insulting half the country. It also illustrates what CNN is. Ali has nothing interesting to say, yet he was a paid contributor for the network. CNN did not renew his contract. Even they have standards, I guess.
Ali’s trolling is odd because he turned to Twitter when his child was sick, and both sides of the aisle helped out. Ali also struck a kindhearted tone in a video released on Huffington Post just after Trump’s election, noting Trump’s white middle and lower class support. Ali asks if those voters listened to how blacks, Latinos, and Muslims (Ali is one himself) felt. Then he asks if black, Latino, and Muslim voters listened to the pain, frustration, and resentment of lower class whites. It’s thoughtful.
Ali is now a garden variety hack, feeding rhetorical catnip to people who unironically believe they were members of a resistance from 2016 to 2020. If leftist elites did a 180 on every issue tonight, Ali would wake up tomorrow and defend his newly assigned positions without thought.
Ali continues to (rhetorically) shit his pants. On July 12, he tweeted “Bezos, Branson, Musk and all the white billionaires would eventually return to Earth even if they could live in space because no poor folks or people of color would be there to do all the work.” Does he think poor people don’t work for black, Latino, and Asian billionaires? That rich people don’t work for billionaires? On June 27th, he tweeted “I feel America has forgotten we’re still in the middle of a pandemic…and there’s a deadly Delta Plus strain.” He tweeted that he saw “packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls” and felt he was “in a horror movie.” Then he shared a photo of his maskless mother: “Mama Ali dressing up for a wedding.”
Ironically, the blurb for Ali’s Jan 2022 book, says “Ali offers indispensable lessons and strategies to help cultivate a more compassionate America.” Must be a different guy.
-Johnny
Wajahat Ali is the Dullest Person in the World
Johnny Dangerous is an idiot!
The author of this article has the audacity to call ANYONE dull? What an incredibly stupid article. Ali is a lot of (mostly good) things, but dull is not one of them.