So that was enough reading of every word for me

So that was enough reading of every word for me. I skipped forward to the parts I was interested in.

And he never did explain the whole Apes thing.

I see David Weigel has a response to my column, posted on Andrew Sullivan’s blog: he, Michael Totten,

and the blogger formerly known as Wonkette are filling in for Candy Andy while he takes yet another

vacation.

I don’t really have that much of a bone to pick with David: as I said in my original post, he’s one

of the Good Guys, a critic of the mbt Party, a reasonable person, and, by the way, an interesting

writer. Which is why I don’t get his rather odd objection to a button handed to John J. Mearsheimer at

the CAIR forum [.pdf], which read: “”Walt & Mearsheimer Rock. Fight the Israel Lobby.”

Weigel finds this button “weird” — but why so? Surely Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt deserve all the

adulation they can get, especially in view of their continuing vilification at the hands of the Lobby.

And, speaking of which, why not fight the Lobby? This isn’t a debate over abstractions: it’s a

political battle, and there is nothing “weird” about wanting to recapture American foreign policy

from a well-funded, well-organized, and single-minded foreign lobby.