Juan Cole, the pretentious history professor from Michigan, made some especially idiotic remarks about Iraqi bloggers recently, and Jeff Jarvis had to set him straight:
The man is pond scum. I know no other way to say it. This guy Cole (supported by your tax dollars in Michigan) decides that if he disagrees with someone, he should imply that that someone must be backed by the CIA or other nefarious forces. Prof. Cole is too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the liberal irony in that; back in the day, when people disagreed with those on his side of the political spectrum, people on the other side implied that they must be backed by the Soviet Union, by Commies. It’s an old trick, Prof. I’m ashamed of you for using it.
It’s delightful rant, and spot-on. Cole is no more informed about the reality of Iraq than you or I, dear reader, but he pretends to be.