Spats at The Corner can be instructive to watch. John Podhoretz defends his support for Rudi Giuliani (and forgot to disclose that is father is a Rudi advisor) in a squabble with Mark O. Levin.
His clincher: that Rudi was criticized more often by the New York Times Editorial Page than any one else in the last 30 years. That's right, the next President of the United States should be the one who is:
"the kind of leader of the Right that liberals hate and fear"
Not the best leader, not the smartest - but the one that liberals hate most.
Like the work of most of his colleagues, Podhoretz's Post is fact free. He has done no quantitative analysis of who was criticized more. Is he including the fact that for some years now the Sunday Times has a separate editorial page for local issues? Podhoretz is just making crap up.
(h/t memeorandum)
P.S. Podhoretz entitled his piece "Law and Order Platitude" but clearly does not know what the word even means. ("Mark, the word "conservative" is a platitude too if it simply becomes shorthand to mean "'what I believe.'")
He also does not understand the concept of parallel construction in the English language.
( If Rudy ..., I would think it perfectly fair if someone pointed out it made him look ridiculous. And if Fred Thompson ... it's perfectly justifiable to point that it made him look bad."
But the use of the phrase "senior moment" - he calls "fine writin."
This is a neocon intellectual at work.
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