Advantage Me

by Kevin

On Thursday July 24 I noted in these pages the hypocrisy inherent in Sam Tanenhaus’ critique of Ann Coulter:

But the irony is that in bemoaning the actions of Coulter, Tanenhaus paints with exactly the same brush . . . Coulter takes today’s looney left and paints everyone with that large brush, Tanenhaus is really just moving in the other direction.

On Saturday, July 26 Andrew Sullivan catches up:

How weird that Tanenhaus should somehow fail to see this distinction and paint diverse and serious writers like Dorothy Rabinowitz and David Horowitz as indistinguishable from Coulter. Isn’t that kind of broad brush exactly what Coulter is criticized for? The truth is: in this article, Tanenhaus is far closer to Coulter’s methods than any of the people he criticizes.

Does anyone really care that I “beat” Sullivan to the punch by two days? No, not really. Just saying . . .