SmartRemarks

Thanks to neoconservative blogger Donald Douglas (with whom I steadfastly disagree), I’ve been alerted to the existence of Andrew McCarthy’s latest venomous rant at the National Review Online (in which he compares Prof. Khalidi to “racists and terror mongers,” and calls the Middle Eastern Studies program at Columbia “a bubbling cauldron of anti-Semitism”—just in case we weren’t sure he was surveying territory well outside the reality-based community)…

…but also the existence of Scott Horton’s response in Harper’s, as calm and sensible as McCarthy is fanatical and unhinged: Read the rest of this entry »

I really find it hard to believe… even if the McCain campaign has no ethical compunctions about this sort of thing, you’d think they’d be tactically smarter by now.

But no:  according to the L.A. Times, McCain’s people are now dredging up a months-old story and accusing the paper of “suppressing” a video showing Barack Obama at a years-old farewell party for Rashid Khalidi, in an attempt to connect Obama to another supposed “terrorist.” Read the rest of this entry »