When Jerks Criticize Jerks
May 20th, 2009 by Nick SaintThe result is, unsurprisingly, jerkish. Joe Klein on Charles Krauthammer:
“There’s something tragic about him, too,” Klein said, referring to Krauthammer’s confinement to a wheelchair, the result of a diving accident during his first year of medical school. “His work would have a lot more nuance if he were able to see the situations he’s writing about.”
Assuming Ben Smith isn’t distorting Klein’s words, that is truly appalling, and completely idiotic. Most people I know have never been to the Middle East yet can think about it with more nuance than Krauthammer. “You’d understand things better - the way I do - if you weren’t a cripple” appears to be the message here. The subtext is “I’m an asshole.”
