THE AUTHOR IS NINA BURLEIGH, WHO FAMOUSLY OFFERED TO FELLATE BILL CLINTON IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS ABORTION STANCE: Deeply Confused Newsweek Story Compares Republicans to Timothy McVeigh. “When she isn’t getting the past wrong, Burleigh is being confused about the present. . . . Evidently Burleigh didn’t get the memo. Or else the memo just didn’t serve her purpose, which is to build toward a conclusion comparing McVeigh’s fertilizer bomb to peaceful politics.” When kneepads are your claim to fame, a firm grasp of the issues is unnecessary. And, as we saw with Arizona, Democrats are quick to resort to blood libel as a means of smearing their political opponents.