I almost did a spit-take when I got to this part of the latest dispatch from the Hewittverse (emphasis mine):
The right’s embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left – exaggeration, invective, anonymous sources, an unbroken stream of new charges, television advertisements paid for by secret sources – will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around.
Hugh, stop, yer killing me…
2 responses so far ↓
1 Scott Lemieux // Oct 29, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Did he think he was just posting to his blog, and send that to the Times by mistake? Is he such a hack all the way down he thought rational people might buy it?
2 Barry // Nov 1, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I think that it’s a successful delusion. More and more I’m coming to believe that it pays to sling mud if you’re already dirty. That people will forget – you base, eagerly, but others, well enough. After 8 years of the most deranges lies about the Clinton administration, the right coins terms like ‘Bush derangement syndrome’, to insult people who actually care that he’s f*cking the country.