National Treasure and a Schmear, Please

Jon Carroll on the New Guy at CNN:

My temptation was to headline this column "Is Erick Erickson molesting Lutheran schoolchildren?," with the first sentence "I assume not." It's the oldest trick in the smear-campaign handbook; on the other hand, provocateurs wouldn't keep doing it if it didn't work. "Carroll boffing Peace Corps returnees?" and then: "We have no evidence that this is true."

Mr. Erickson apparently believes that subordinating his id to his ego and super-ego is elitism, and will have none of it.