Pat: If Roger had made an actual argument, like the intellectual he claims to be, I might have tried to refute it. But this post is nothing more than a collection of every vague, stale, meaningless insinuation that has been circulating in right-wing blogs for months. Like the bit about Auschwitz. Obama said his uncle helped to liberate Auschwitz, which — horrors! — was not true. In fact, it was his great-uncle, and Buchenwald. So this “gaffe” is 100% meaningless. If that’s the kind of crap Roger has to fling to try to damage Obama, rather than attacking anything substantial about him, then he is a big fat hack, and nothing more. The fact that his supporting links go to places like WorldNut Daily and the NY Post doesn’t help.

I guess I’m just puzzled, because if I was in Roger’s shoes — that is, having published some supposedly serious books and editing a supposedly serious magazine — I would be a little bit more careful with my public image, and try to write stuff that had at least a veneer of thought behind it, rather than acting like just another Republican stooge. But then, I’m not a highly regarded pundit and don’t wear a bowtie, so what do I know?