I have to post the Editor’s Note from this week’s NYT Book Review because it’s a true classic:
A review on Jan. 14 about “The Man Who Would Not Shut Up,” by Marvin Kitman, and “Culture Warrior,” by Bill O’Reilly, incorrectly attributed an anti-Semitic euphemism to Patirck J. Buchanan, whose populism was compared to O’Reilly’s. Neither the reviewer, Jacon Heilbrunn, not the editors of the Book Review have found evidence that Buchanan has ever denounced “rootless cosmopolitans.” Some of Buchanan’s ideoplogical opponents have used the phrase in charcaterizing his views, and the reviewer wrongly assumed from their writings that Buchanan used it himself.
Beautiful. But the best part is Heilbrunn not only accused Buchanan of being anti-Semitic, but of being a communist. Say what you wil about Buchanan, but I don’t think anybody in their right mind could do that.
