The Difference Between a Writer and a Partisan Operative

The latter wouldn’t make a post like this, because he would have to know that it would be willfully misconstrued by partisan hacks. Needless to say, Instapundit started the bandwagon rolling, and other bloggers such as Treason in Defense of Slavery Yankee (even if the criticism of Matt supposedly apologizing for anti-Semites had any substantive merit, I might suggest that those whose websites aren’t decorated with Confederate flags cast the first stone) have followed suit. They may wish to scroll to the end to see Yglesias’ use of the phrase “third world goon,” which would make it obvious to any non-idiot that the point of the post was to criticize Bush’s allegedly ill-fitting and stodgy suits.

Now, I wouldn’t make this post even as a partisan operative, because 1)I don’t give a shit how political leaders (or, for that matter, people who meet the President) dress, and 2)I remember that a media obsession with such meaningless trivia is a primary reason why Bush is in the White House in the first place. But the point of his post was obviously not to express political support for Ahmadinejad. (I’d also note that Bush’s foolish war, so strongly supported by Reynolds and TIDOSY, has done rather more for crackpot Iranian theocrats than blogposts about his dress could ever hope to accomplish.)