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I am shocked at the substandard ethics displayed by The New Yorker's blogger George Packer.
Althouse — This New Yorker blogger, George Packer, names me and slams me, but doesn't link, so there's no way for readers to see the context. The context is ...

Habits Of Paranoid Minds
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Packer compares right-wing Obama conspiracy theories to Iraqi conspiracy theories: Wading for a few minutes through the sewage of these Web sites reminds me uncannily of the time I’ve spent having political discussions in certain living rooms and coffee shops in Baghdad. The mental atmosphere is exactly the same—the wild fantasies presented as obvious truth, the patterns seen by those few with the courage and wisdom to see, the amused pity for anyone weak-minded enough to be skeptical, the logic that turns counter-evidence into evidence and every ...

Swift Reactions 9: In Which Ann Althouse Tasks Me
Jon Swift — ... after George Packer of the New Yorker linked to my piece and accused her of belonging to “a self-isolating political subculture gone rancid.” How did Ms. Althouse ...

Obama's judges. Althouse's obsession with linking.
Althouse — ... for writing about something from my blog without linking, depriving his readers of quick access to the complete context. Packer was especially irksome because he insulted me and clearly meant to damage my reputation as a law professor. But Marcus, distinctly differently, means to take advantage of my reputation as a law professor. She has chosen the statement of mine that best suits her argument and intends for my status as a law professor to bolster the statement. (By the way, Marcus dropped the italics I had on the 2 words, and I put them back above.) ...

Run Like the Wind, Mr. Skittles! (Omnibus via George Packer and Jon Swift Edition)
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker: A roundup [by Jon Swift] (via Andrew Sullivan) of conservative anti-Obama blogging during the election. Much of it has appeared on popular right-wing Web sites, including National Review Online, disclosing the “news” that Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams from My Father,” Obama was involved in domestic terrorism during the South Africa divestment campaign of the early 1980s, Michelle Obama used the word “whitey” in recorded conversation with Louis Farrakhan, Obama has had a female lover as ...