More Corner brilliance.
Stephen Spruiell casts more doubt on the "Baghdad Diarist" TNR flap by... mocking an imaginary converstation between Franklin Foer and Scott Thomas:
FOER: ... Right, okay, so in this part where you and your buddy are making fun of "IED girl," you write that he "stabbed his spoon violently into his pile of mashed potatoes." Would it be fair to say that, in a sense, the pile of mashed potatoes is Iraq and the spoon is Bush's illegal war?
THOMAS: Yeah, you could say that.
And so forth. Clever stuff. But it makes you wonder if Spruiell ever opened a copy of the New Republic which, you know, has pretty much wholeheartedly supported every US intervention since Vietnam.
Update: Matt Yglesias sums up the situation as of this morning.
FOER: ... Right, okay, so in this part where you and your buddy are making fun of "IED girl," you write that he "stabbed his spoon violently into his pile of mashed potatoes." Would it be fair to say that, in a sense, the pile of mashed potatoes is Iraq and the spoon is Bush's illegal war?
THOMAS: Yeah, you could say that.
And so forth. Clever stuff. But it makes you wonder if Spruiell ever opened a copy of the New Republic which, you know, has pretty much wholeheartedly supported every US intervention since Vietnam.
Update: Matt Yglesias sums up the situation as of this morning.
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