The Scent of Wet Hippies

Christopher Hitchens has a must-read article on deceptive reporting of the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition as “anti-war.

The name of the reporter on this story was Michael Janofsky. I suppose that it is possible that he has never before come across “International ANSWER,” the group run by the “Worker’s World” party and fronted by Ramsey Clark, which openly supports Kim Jong-il, Fidel Castro, Slobodan Milosevic, and the “resistance” in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Clark himself finding extra time to volunteer as attorney for the génocidaires in Rwanda. Quite a “wide range of progressive political objectives” indeed, if that’s the sort of thing you like. However, a dip into any database could have furnished Janofsky with well-researched and well-written articles by David Corn and Marc Cooper–to mention only two radical left journalists–who have exposed “International ANSWER” as a front for (depending on the day of the week) fascism, Stalinism, and jihadism.

There’s a surprising degree of disillusionment at last weekend’s protest at . . . Daily Kos, and mainstream Democrats want nothing to do with them. Meanwhile, some of the reporting has been downright sloppy in its gullible consumption of tasty lies.

Personally, I was pleased that they were rained on, but it’s Tuesday, and Washington is still permeated with wet hippie whiff. I’d have gone to MOPP I just to take photographs for your viewing pleasure, but the Sergeant Major ended my plan with just one look.