ENOUGH! WE'RE ALL WRONG SOMETIMES. Nothing more about Tom Edsall, I promise. The ratio of commentary to original text now rivals The Waste Land. However, a meta-point:
In the comments on the various posts here and elsewhere on the Edsall column, and on other sites, the critique jumps without hesitation from "he got it wrong" to a categorical attack on the writer, usually going straight to motive: He's "drunk the Beltway Kool-Aid," he's a "courtier servant...a silly, silly man," one blogger says, and a commenter demands that we "ask what it profits Edsall to lie...He is not a political pundit, commentator, or writer--he is a paid hack and propagandist." About half the comments have a similar tone.
