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Michelle Malkin Behind the Curve

DateTuesday, July 5, 2005 at 10:03AM

Ms. Malkin and I agree on most things political and social but you just never know where the blogs are going to intersect because she rarely looks at mine.  Nevertheless, intelligent people looking at the same information, in this case Peter Beinart's serial offensiveness, often come to the same conclusion, doubtless the same conclusion his high school classmates arrived at a couple of decades ago:

TIME FOR A PETER BEINART SMACKDOWN

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Someone beat Michelle to the punch

I just want it on the record that I called for a Peter Beinart Pancake ages ago, to wit:

MG Whine time: the biggest disadvantage to Mr. Blankley's added heft is that he can't leap out of his chair fast enough to put Mr. Beinart out of our misery (the visual: Wicked Witch of the East after the house landed).
(From Weekend Update)

He seems to ask for it regularly and get it by better people than me.  First Pat Buchanan, now Michelle Malkin.  Thank you, thank you!

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Same old liberal whine. If you cannot dispute the facts resort to ad hominem attacks.
July 6, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterAlnot

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