(from Instapundit)

When I first read Andrew Sullivan's latest column, The New Republic Online: Be Like Me, I believed he misinterpreted William Raspberry.

But I was wrong. I went to the original article, and Raspberry's emphasis is even more damning.

At one point he says of Louis Farrkhan, "he'll say in plain language what nice, educated people cannot bring themselves to say: The man is a devil." It was not italicized in Sullivan's article. I first thought Raspberry was referring to Farrakhan himself, but the colon and italics make it clear he is not. Instead he talks about "the man" and the "attitude" Moore and Farrakhan display, as if it were something to be respected.

This is beneath Raspberry, to applaud a film he admits is less than scrupulously honest.