A note from a Froomkin reader summing up the view of many:

Meanwhile a pack of smarmy weasels ranging from Charles "Smirky" Krauthammer to Bill "My Constant Nervous Laughter Doesn't Really Cover the Fact that I'm a Fact-Free Hack" Kristol continue to thrive here with the same blather we can get from Fox News, and often do by the very same meme machines. Shame!

Adios, Dan, you wonderful, significant voice. You have served us well.

I like that "meme machines". It's not some conspiracy; it has nothing to do with Jews; it has everything to do with an ideological faction that is totally discredited in the country and world but propped up by Fred Hiatt. I mean: how would anyone justify giving Bill Kristol a column after he was fired at the NYT for work that would be laughed out of the blogosphere? Has anyone been more wrong about American politics for the past eight years?