Profile in Courage

Alexandra Polier, the woman whose life was so cruelly disrupted by lies and innuendo so that the Kerry-haters could fabricate a reputation-destroying smear has written this week's cover story in New York magazine. If nothing else it shows the depths to which the anti-Kerry press will dive to trash him - without regard to what I can only charitably describe as collateral damage. It's also a fine example of how a smear is conducted.

Mark Kleiman put it best in this post:

As I said before, the depth of depravity displayed by those who hyped this scandal and then refused -- still refuse -- to retract makes the behavior of the ordinary criminals and drug dealers whose conduct I study professionally seem rather innocent by comparison.

Indeed. Heh. By the way, if you think I'm being unfair in that last comment click the last link in the post I just linked to.

Jesse Taylor at Pandagon points out that Mickey Kaus is still rolling in this slop.

I wonder if Ms. Polier has seen this film or read this book.