Going meta with Matt Yglesias http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/going-meta-with-matt-yglesias/ Matt Yglesias doesn’t like Leon Wieseltier’s evisceration of Andrew Sullivan.  en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2010 2010-02-09T;22:33:00-05:00 Comment by Trent Robinson msreiner@yahoo.com Yglesias wrote: “Niether [sic] Walt nor Mearsheimer nor Sullivan has said anything remotely resembling ‘Jews control Washington.’” Well, Sullivan has and he seems to believe that W&M;have as well. When discussing Gaza here http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/03/gaza.html, Sullivan wrote: “American public opinion, as Glenn Greenwald noted, was evenly divided, and Democrats sided more with the Palestinians enduring a blitz with some white phosphorus thrown into the mix. Is there any plausible explanation for this discrepancy apart from the Walt-Mearsheimer one?” Maybe I don’t understand what “remotely resembling” means . . . Yglesias wrote:
“Niether [sic] Walt nor Mearsheimer nor Sullivan has said anything remotely resembling ‘Jews control Washington.’”

Well, Sullivan has and he seems to believe that W&M;have as well.

When discussing Gaza here http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/03/gaza.html, Sullivan wrote:

“American public opinion, as Glenn Greenwald noted, was evenly divided, and Democrats sided more with the Palestinians enduring a blitz with some white phosphorus thrown into the mix. Is there any plausible explanation for this discrepancy apart from the Walt-Mearsheimer one?”

Maybe I don’t understand what “remotely resembling” means . . .

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