WANK 2 D XTREME. I’d be inclined to go a bit easy on Richard Cohen re. Al Gore, if only because some of the examples culled by Media Matters could generously be described as Cohen defending Gore in a singularly unhelpful and damaging way. But since Cohen is responsible for the craziest damned Gore/Bush column of them all, I’m, well, disinclined.

–Sam Rosenfeld

Sam Rosenfeld, a former web editor for the Prospect, is visiting assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, beginning in September.