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Left-right logic on Planet Whelan

By Mark Obbie

So now I've entered Ed Whelan's orbit, or he mine. Just one response is needed: What in my postings about the Greenhouse controversy would lead one to believe I am a lefty? Evidently we can only be one thing: Enemies or Friends, Left or Right. I thought his attack on Greenhouse to be over the top -- not unfounded, as I said at the outset, just overblown -- so therefore I am not with him, I am against him. Ergo, I'm a leftist and what I believe about journalists and their critics is driven solely by "political animus." Doesn't that simplicity demonstrate all we need to know about the intellectual integrity of Whelan's underlying critique?

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).