Anya Kamenetz is the Most Annoying Person in NY, Pt. III

Anya Kamenetz is at it again.

What she writes about is really important, but then she makes one's skin crawl with first lines like:

"Can't complain when the subject of your new book becomes a special issue of the New York Times Magazine and a Page One story in USA Today within 2 days."

Barf. As far as I can tell, neither the NYT Mag nor USA Today mention her shitty book even once, yet the clear implication is that no editor would have ever thought to examine student debt unless the mighty Anya Kamenetz had jack-booted into the public discourse.

In her Huffington Post bio, she claims she is "a spokesperson of, for, and to young people in economic difficulties." There's the self aggrandizement again, and also the problem. She is not positioning herself as an observer or critic (much less as someone with any kind of economic or sociological training). She positions herself as a spokesperson, yet she is NOT a person with significant economic difficulties. She's just a whiny bitch. She has precisely zero self awareness and an unfortunate little megalomania problem. And because she makes it about her experience, that whininess is at issue.

As she gloats in her piece, she'll be at this conference tomorrow with her comrade in mediocrity Barack Obama. Any hecklers?