Ian
2007-08-20 11:21:31
The thing is that the NR doesn’t need to protect its credibility. For the audience it now seeks to pander to, the antiwar left, the credibility of anything tending to be construed as against the war is deemed credible per se, and all criticism just a reflection of ideological intolerance. It makes perfect economic sense for NR just to dig in and claim that the writer is being persecuted on political grounds not matter how absurd this claim may be. Because in any event this will sufficiently appease its intended audience and that’s all that is really necessary.
