Peretz Pushback

It's probably not going to amount to much -- like a palace coup, in which Marty Peretz (and, why not, Leon) are paraded, tarred, feather and naked past those poor fact-checkers who are one misplaced comma away from the breadline -- but it's nice to see Jonathan Chait write, with all necessary tact, that his editor is full of it and a mean-spirited ogre to boot.

Who can argue with the facts? It's just a shame it took Chris Orr's relatively benign post about Scooter Libby to provoke this squabblette.

Where are you, Jack Shafer? If anyone can toss the requisite gas on this fire, it is he.

(Naturally, Marty's Mini Me continues to fight a losing battle. (He's perfervid, of course, which is what happens to young men who stray too far from the cozy confines of the American Enterprise reservation.)