The Scott Thomas Row
Not a lot of time to do so myself (back from the monastery on Wed!), but I figured somebody ought to mention the current hysteria about the TNR Baghdad Blogger. It turns out he’s a real person. This is objectionable, apparantly, and all hands in the conservative blogosphere have been called to deck to…well, to post. A lot. Because. ?
I’ve spent half an hour of my very limited online time trying to figure out why I or anybody else should be reading anything any of them have yet posted, and I haven’t come up with a good answer yet. But, I can’t help feel that, in trying, I’ve had some things about the contemporary Republican movement reiterated to me. Everything so far posted about Scott Thomas says miles more about the people doing the baying than about Scott Thomas or TNR, that I can see.
As usual, Sullivan provides all the context you need.